Бенджамин Франклин - Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Socrates confuted his opponents in argument by asking questions so skillfully devised that the answers would confirm the questioner's position or show the error of the opponent.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), the greatest English poet of the first half of the eighteenth century.

Franklin's memory does not serve him correctly here. The Courant was really the fifth newspaper established in America, although generally called the fourth, because the first, Public Occurrences , published in Boston in 1690, was suppressed after the first issue. Following is the order in which the other four papers were published: Boston News Letter , 1704; Boston Gazette , December 21, 1719; The American Weekly Mercury , Philadelphia, December 22, 1719; The New England Courant , 1721.

Disclosed.

Kill van Kull, the channel separating Staten Island from New Jersey on the north.

Samuel Richardson, the father of the English novel, wrote Pamela , Clarissa Harlowe , and the History of Sir Charles Grandison , novels published in the form of letters.

Manuscript.

The frames for holding type are in two sections, the upper for capitals and the lower for small letters.

Protestants of the South of France, who became fanatical under the persecutions of Louis XIV, and thought they had the gift of prophecy. They had as mottoes "No Taxes" and "Liberty of Conscience."

Temple Franklin considered this specific figure vulgar and changed it to "stared with astonishment."

Pennsylvania and Delaware.

A peep-show in a box.

There were no mints in the colonies, so the metal money was of foreign coinage and not nearly so common as paper money, which was printed in large quantities in America, even in small denominations.

Spanish dollar about equivalent to our dollar.

"In one of the later editions of the Dunciad occur the following lines:

To this the poet adds the following note:

'James Ralph, a name inserted after the first editions, not known till he writ a swearing-piece called Sawney , very abusive of Dr. Swift, Mr. Gay, and myself.'"