Benjamin franklin pennsylvania biography of mahatma

BackIndexNext

CHAPTER I.

State of Affairs in Pennsylvania. — Defects of the Government. — Legislation. — Conduct of the Proprietaries.

— Object of Franklin's Agency in England.

Benjamin Franklin - Biography, Age, Founding Father and Inventor

— Collinson, Miss Stevenson, Strahan, Governor Shirley Beccaria, Mussehenbroek. — Franklin's Interview with the Proprietaries. — He causes a Letter to be published respecting Pennsylvania. — Delays in his public Business.

— He travels in various Parts of England. — Visits the Place in which his Ancestors were born.

Settings

— Forms an Acquaintance with Baskerville. — Publishes the "Historical Review of Pennsylvania." — Authorship of that Work.

The dissensions, which had long existed and continually increased, between the governors and assemblies of Pennsylvania, had their origin in the peculiar structure of the government, and the manner of its administration.

The system, possessing in itself many excellent principles, became vicious, and almost impracticable, i