Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781441300591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781441300591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781441300591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Ben Franklin's Wit & Wisdom
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin
Author: James C. Humes
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060926977
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A brilliant resource to the wise and witty sayings of the "first American", along with numerous entertaining anecdotes about Benjamin Franklin's adventures and misadventures, from his childhood in his brother's Boston printing establishment and his subsequent move to Philadelphia as a youth to his stint as Colonial postmaster general, his work with Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence, and his years as ambassador to the court of Louis XVI in France. This book is for speechmakers, students of history, and lovers of Americana. The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin contains quotations organized by subject; lists of his inventions and innovations, such as newspaper editorials, the Franklin stove, bifocals, daylight saving time, and electroshock treatment; and his insights into the personalities of his contemporaries.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060926977
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A brilliant resource to the wise and witty sayings of the "first American", along with numerous entertaining anecdotes about Benjamin Franklin's adventures and misadventures, from his childhood in his brother's Boston printing establishment and his subsequent move to Philadelphia as a youth to his stint as Colonial postmaster general, his work with Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence, and his years as ambassador to the court of Louis XVI in France. This book is for speechmakers, students of history, and lovers of Americana. The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin contains quotations organized by subject; lists of his inventions and innovations, such as newspaper editorials, the Franklin stove, bifocals, daylight saving time, and electroshock treatment; and his insights into the personalities of his contemporaries.
The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566197212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Charismatic and intelligent, industrious and courageous, bold and innovative, articulate and outspoken, Ben Franklin was a maverick and visionary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566197212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Charismatic and intelligent, industrious and courageous, bold and innovative, articulate and outspoken, Ben Franklin was a maverick and visionary.
Ben Franklin
Author: Alan Schroeder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823419500
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduces the life and accomplishments, from A to Z, of a Founding Father, from armonicas to bifocals, with adages and cartoons.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823419500
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduces the life and accomplishments, from A to Z, of a Founding Father, from armonicas to bifocals, with adages and cartoons.
Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593599393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Looking for advice that has stood the test of time? Ready for pithy pointers from the original instruction book for life? Selections from Benjamin Franklin's famously beloved Poor Richard's Almanack, illustrated with vintage woodcuts, offer wit and wisdom relevant for today's lifestyle and business world.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593599393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Looking for advice that has stood the test of time? Ready for pithy pointers from the original instruction book for life? Selections from Benjamin Franklin's famously beloved Poor Richard's Almanack, illustrated with vintage woodcuts, offer wit and wisdom relevant for today's lifestyle and business world.
Ben Franklin's Wit and Wisdom
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Bite-Size Franklin
Author: John P. Holms
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466889683
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
As a bestselling author and our nation's earliest spokesman, Benjamin Franklin brilliantly extolled virtues of temperance, industry, and self-reliance --character traits which throughout our history have been celebrated as both personally liberating and quintessentially American. In this next installment of the highly successful Bite-Size series, Bite-Size Franklin draws some practical wisdom, and more than a few laughs, from Franklin's intimate letters, scientific essays, newspaper articles, and revolutionary writings, as well as from the pages of career advice, aphorisms, and humorous verse he weaved together in his Autobiography, and in his yearly publication Poor Richard's Almanac.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466889683
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
As a bestselling author and our nation's earliest spokesman, Benjamin Franklin brilliantly extolled virtues of temperance, industry, and self-reliance --character traits which throughout our history have been celebrated as both personally liberating and quintessentially American. In this next installment of the highly successful Bite-Size series, Bite-Size Franklin draws some practical wisdom, and more than a few laughs, from Franklin's intimate letters, scientific essays, newspaper articles, and revolutionary writings, as well as from the pages of career advice, aphorisms, and humorous verse he weaved together in his Autobiography, and in his yearly publication Poor Richard's Almanac.
Poor Richard's Almanac
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas" and many others.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas" and many others.