Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . As a theologian he was remarkable for the extensive- O ness of his views ; and as a controversialist, he was unusually candid and he wrote was characterized by originality, and by the excellentspirit which breathed through them all. His powers of reasoning were resist-less ; and hence arises that wondrous trait in all
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . As a theologian he was remarkable for the extensive- O ness of his views ; and as a controversialist, he was unusually candid and he wrote was characterized by originality, and by the excellentspirit which breathed through them all. His powers of reasoning were resist-less ; and hence arises that wondrous trait in all his grand treatises, namely,the unauswerableness of his arguments. Such are a few of the prominentpoints in the life, character, and writings of the truly great President Edwards * Mr. Edwards had intended to prepare several works ; one of trhem was A Harmony of the Oldand New Testaments, and another, which would have been his masterpiece, he had begun on the History of the Work of Redrmption, a complete system of divinity on a new plan, in which theevents of heaven, earth, and hell, should be treated in their natural order, and the various parts of dogmatical theology so interwoven as to appear in beautiful harmony with the whole. 264 BENJAMIN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. PROBABLY a greater man than BENJAMIN FRANKLIN never lived, regardedwith that analytical discrimination which distinguishes true greatness in inhe* it rent qualities rather than in brilliant external displays ; and in almost everyparticular characteristic of a man, he presented a model of excellence of thehighest standard. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 17th of Janu-ary, 1706. His father was a true puritan, and immigrated hither from England,in 1682. He soon after married Miss Folger, a native of Boston. Being nei-ther a mechanic nor farmer, he turned his attention to the business of a soap-boilefand tallow-chandler, which was his occupation for life. The parents of Benjamin wishe
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