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Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1

by William Cabell Bruce

Chapter 1 of 34 Introduction

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Jim Locke

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His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the tallow chandler's son, rising from the humblest levels of human fortune to the highest by uninterrupted gradations of invincible success, finally becomes the recipient of such a degree of impressive homage as has rarely been paid to anyone by the admiration and curiosity of mankind. (from Introduction)