... with whom he honed his debate skills via letters. Josiah, meanwhile, helped advise Ben in his writing form. He acquired a copy of the British newspaper The Spectator and imitated its style, soon leaning "method in the arrangement of thoughts." Part One, second section (Read: Section 2) Summary Throughout his teens ... to become more humble, speaking "with seeming diffidence." In 1720, James started the New England Courant, which according to Franklin is the second newspaper in America. Franklin worked as a delivery boy. Meanwhile, he worked hard at writing. When he published anonymously ...

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... befriended a "bookish lad" named John Collins, with whom he honed his debate skills via letters. Josiah, meanwhile, helped advise Ben in his writing form. He acquired a copy of the British newspaper The Spectator and imitated its style, soon leaning "method in the arrangement of thoughts the young Franklin is bookish, intently devoted to his own personal improvement." Franklin clearly saw that ... instruct "the common people," which he does via his many aphorisms. One issue, for instance, quips, "It's hard for an empty sack to stand upright." He used parts of his newspaper, The Pennsylv...

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... Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of his successful contemporaries, and the dissatisfaction which they tried to extinguish with further indulgences. He ... ...

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