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Chapter 9 WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.

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point, there was a touch of primeval orientalness in Benjamin Franklin. Neither is there wanting something like his Scriptural parallel. The history of the patriarch Jacob is interesting

a union not without warrant; the apostolic s

the moving manor, Jacob's raiment was of homespun; the e

the paragon of perspicuity. The mental habits of Hobbes and Franklin in several points, especially in one of some moment, assimilated. Indeed, making due allowance for soil and era, history presents few trios more akin, upon

the dark-stoned quadrangle of the time-honored Sorbonne, walked the lean and slippered metaphysician,-oblivious for the moment that his sublime thoughts and tattered wardrobe were famous throughout Europe,-meditating on the theme of his next lecture; at the same time, in the well-worn chambers overhead, some clayey-visaged chemist in ragged robe-de-chambre, and with a soiled green flap over his left eye, was hard at work stooping over retorts

. In some parts its general air is dreary and dim; monastic and theurgic. In those lonely narrow ways-long-drawn prospectives of desertion-lined with huge piles of silent, vaulted,

in. The embellishing, or softening, or screening hand of woman is to be seen all over the interiors of this metropolis.. Like Augustus Caesar with respect to Rome, the Frenchwoman leaves her obvious mark on Paris. Like the hand in n

avan, were permanently retained as his admirers by his Plato-like graciousness of good humor. Having carefully weighed the world, Franklin could act any part in it. By nature turned to knowledge, his mind was often grave, but never serious. At times he had seriousness-extreme seriousness-for others, but never for himself. Tranquillity was to him instead of it. This philosophical levity of tranquillity, so to speak, is shown in his easy variety of pursuits. Printer, postmaster, almanac maker, essayist, chemist, orator, tinker, statesman, humorist, philosopher, parlor man, political economist, professor of housewifery, ambassador, projector, maxim-monger, herb-doctor, wit:-Jack of all trades, master of each and mastered by none-the type and genius of his land. Franklin was everything but a poet

rter tarried Israel for the time. And it was into a room of a house in this same Latin

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Contents

Chapter 1 No.1 Chapter 2 THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL. Chapter 3 THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL. Chapter 4 ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY'S LAND. Chapter 5 FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM. Chapter 6 ISRAEL IN THE LION'S DEN. Chapter 7 ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY, THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL. Chapter 8 AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR. FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED. Chapter 9 WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER. Chapter 10 ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER. Chapter 11 ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
Chapter 12 PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
Chapter 13 RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE'S ABODE-HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
Chapter 14 HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
Chapter 15 IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
Chapter 16 THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
Chapter 17 THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
Chapter 18 THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.
Chapter 19 THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
Chapter 20 THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
Chapter 21 THE SHUTTLE.
Chapter 22 SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
Chapter 23 SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL'S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
Chapter 24 ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
Chapter 25 CONTINUED.
Chapter 26 IN THE CITY OF DIS.
Chapter 27 FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
Chapter 28 REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
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