目录

正文

INTRODUCTION

1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston

2. Beginning Life as a Printer（1）

2. Beginning Life as a Printer（2）

3. Arrival in Philadelphia

4. First Visit to Boston

5. Early Friends in Philadelphia

6. First Visit to London（1）

6. First Visit to London（2）

7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia（1）

7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia（2）

8. Business Success and First Public Service

part two

9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection（1）

9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection（2）

part three

10. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities

11. Interest in Public Affairs

12. Defense of the Province

13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753)（1）

13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753)（2）

14. Albany Plan of Union

15. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors

16. Braddock’s Expedition（1）

16. Braddock’s Expedition（2）

17. Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier

18. Scientific Experiments

19. Agent of Pennsylvania in London（1）

19. Agent of Pennsylvania in London（2）

part four

Silence Dogood, No. 7 (1722)

Preface to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)

A Witch Trial at Mount Holly

poor richard’s almanac

Preface to Poor Richard (1733)

Preface to Poor Richard (1739)

The Way to Wealth

Rules for a Club Established for Mutual Improvement(1728)

A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (1743)

An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fireplaces

Of Lightning (The Lightning Road)(1767)

The Speech of Polly Baker(1747)

Exporting of Felons to the Colonies (1751)

Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, and the Peopling of Countries (1751)

On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor (1766)

What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest (1771)

To Jonathan Shipley (1775)

Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One; Presented privately to a late Minister,

To the Count de Vergennes, a Diplomatic Apology (1782)

Speech in the Convention, at the Constitution of Its Deliberrations(1787)

To Joseph Priestley,On Moral Algebra, or Decision-making (1772)

The Ephemera (1778)

The Whistle (1779)

On Cotton Mather (1784)

A Letter to Samuel Mather (1784)

To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo (1790)

I Sing My Plain Country Joan

Franklin’s Epitaph

Appendix