Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 330
as a writer.He had studied Locke On the Human Un-derstanding, Xenophons Memorable Thingsof Socrates, and a volume of the Spectatorof Addison and Steele. This last he chose ashis model, mastering its methods, taking apartthe essays to see how they were put together,and so finding out the secret of… … BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. FROM THE PORTRAIT BY CHARLES W1LLSON PEALE For a mild joke on the government JamesFranklin was forbidden to publish the NewEngland Cow-ant, so he canceled his brothersapprenticeship and made over the paper toBenjamin. But the indentures were secretlyrenewed, and the elder brother…
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