...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water American, as they called me, was stronger than them selves, who drank st... ... brick mak ers, learned to write after be was of age, carri’d the chain for surveyors, who taught him surveying, and he had now by his industry, acqu... ...company being increased to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a great ...