The Hawthorne Readers - 1904 Author:Edward Everett Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lucumo was the name given to the Etrurian nobles. corpses: Many Tuscan chiefs had been slain before Astur. constant: He did not vary in the least from his ... more »strength of resolution. Sextus : the son of the Roman king, Tarquinius, who had been expelled from Rome. Palatinus: one of the seven hills of Rome; see p. 233. Tiber: The Romans personified the Tiber as a river-god. harness: armor. crest: the ornament of his helmet. 3. FRANKLIN'S EARLY STUDIES By Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin (Jan. 17, 1706-April 17, 1790) was the first American to be generally known at home and abroad, both in England and on the continent, as a scholar and a man of letters. All the more strange is it that he had but little regular education. Almost everything that he knew, he taught himself. Fortunately for us he wrote an account of his own life, so that we can, to some degree, see how he accomplished the remarkable things he did accomplish. From being a poor boy, he became one of the greatest and most respected men in the country, and there can be little doubt that one of the means by which he succeeded, was, to use his own words, his " being able to write." He became an eminent man mainly because he was always ready to suggest and promote plans for the public advantage. It astonishes one to read of all the institutions he had an active hand in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN founding. His usual method was first to put his scheme in writing so as to present it to his fellow-citizens to best advantage. He had studied carefully the art of writing as a means of practical utility, and he always used it for what he could accomplish by it. The following is his own account of his beginning, a little abbreviated by the omission of some details. PART ONE I CONTINUED thus employed in...« less