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Franklin   /frˈæŋklɪn/   Listen
Franklin

noun
1.
United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915).  Synonym: John Hope Franklin.
2.
Printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790).  Synonym: Benjamin Franklin.
3.
A landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth.



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"Franklin" Quotes from Famous Books



... one day a ring she wore. She had took the weddin' rings of her 4 pardners and had 'em all run together, and the initials of their first names carved inside on it. Her first husband's name wuz Franklin, her next two wuz Orville and Obed, and her last and livin' one Lyman. Wall, she meant well, but she never see what would be the end on't and how it would read till she had got their initials all ...
— Samantha at Saratoga • Marietta Holley
... family of mosses is found not only near home, but even far away amid the icefields and the snow, where the reindeer searches with its horns for the white moss which is its food, and where Sir John Franklin and his devoted men gathered the black Tripe de Roche upon which they tried to live during those dark months when their ship lay ...
— Twilight And Dawn • Caroline Pridham
... read Benjamin Franklin's directions to those learning to swim, you will understand the methods our Captain pursued to teach us. In his boat he was always dressed in bathing-clothes, and would often jump out to show us by example how ...
— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston
... the Lady Franklin for Hobart Town, and it is rumoured that we are to have a new Commandant. The Lady Franklin is commanded by an old man named Blunt, a protege of Frere's, and a fellow to whom I have taken one of ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... we must travel beyond words and definitions till we come in contact with the personal deeds that first give rise to them. The life of Martin Luther, with its faults and merits honestly represented, is a powerful moral tonic to the reader; the autobiography of Franklin brings out a great variety of homely truths in the form of interesting episodes in his career. Adam Bede and Romola impress us more powerfully and permanently than the best sermons, because the individual realism in them ...
— The Elements of General Method - Based on the Principles of Herbart • Charles A. McMurry


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