Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America"Explores Benjamin Franklin's network of partnerships and business relationships with printers. His network altered practices in both European and American colonial printing trades by providing capital and political influence to set up working partnerships with James Parker, Francis Childs, Benjamin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin Bache, David Hall, Anthony Armbruster, and others"--Provided by publisher. |
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Page 12
... believed most people could be trained to behave vir- tuously through incremental implementation of his plan . “ Men don't become very good or very bad in an Instant , both vicious and virtuous Habits being acquired by Length of Time and ...
... believed most people could be trained to behave vir- tuously through incremental implementation of his plan . “ Men don't become very good or very bad in an Instant , both vicious and virtuous Habits being acquired by Length of Time and ...
Page 17
... believed moral superiority would result from an accretion of ra- tional deliberation , sincere thrift , industrious labor , and disciplined behavior . These qualities were prized in republican thought , wherein character , spirit , and ...
... believed moral superiority would result from an accretion of ra- tional deliberation , sincere thrift , industrious labor , and disciplined behavior . These qualities were prized in republican thought , wherein character , spirit , and ...
Page 36
... believed him a wet Quaker . Indeed , all Sects considered him , and I believe justly , a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion . ” 1 Adams himself decided that Franklin was properly situated among “ Atheists , Deists ...
... believed him a wet Quaker . Indeed , all Sects considered him , and I believe justly , a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion . ” 1 Adams himself decided that Franklin was properly situated among “ Atheists , Deists ...
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... believed the mean- ing of an event could be ascertained by placing it in a theological context , Puritan leaders such as Increase Mather and his son Cotton regarded the reporting of “ shipwrecks , preservations , thunder and lightning ...
... believed the mean- ing of an event could be ascertained by placing it in a theological context , Puritan leaders such as Increase Mather and his son Cotton regarded the reporting of “ shipwrecks , preservations , thunder and lightning ...
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... believed in the divine providence of God , acknowledged the power of prayer , tried to imitate the humility of Jesus , and envisioned the existence of Heaven as “ a State of Happiness , infinite in Degree , and eternal in Duration ...
... believed in the divine providence of God , acknowledged the power of prayer , tried to imitate the humility of Jesus , and envisioned the existence of Heaven as “ a State of Happiness , infinite in Degree , and eternal in Duration ...
Contents
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Spreading Virtue to South Carolina | 64 |
Network Expansion from New York to the Caribbean | 78 |
The Political Imperative of the Pennsylvania German Partnerships | 98 |
Franklin Plants a Printer in His Native New England | 115 |
The Franklin Network and the Stamp Act | 138 |
Rebellion and Network Loyalties | 155 |
The Moral Reform of a Scurrilous Press | 168 |
God Humanity and Franklins Legacy | 192 |
Abbreviations | 209 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 291 |
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Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca Limited preview - 2006 |
Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca No preview available - 2006 |
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