Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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AT A BRILLIANT FETE GIVEN ....^aJllliiiliiaffllMiulilllUllililllllill^^ IN FRANKLINS HONOR, HE WAS CROWNED WITH LAUREL.400 CURIOUS STORIES FROM HISTORY 401 gracious manner. His wit, fascinating conversa-tion, and sound common sense attracted the ad-miration of the gay and frivolous court, and hewas lionized by all. At a brilliant fete given in his honor, he wascrowned with laurel by one of three hundred dence abroad. Congress was pleased to declarethat the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Esquire,was permitted to return to America. His fellow-signer of the Declaration and afterward our Pres-ident, Thomas Jefferson, had been chosen to suc-ceed him as minister to the French court.
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FKANKLIN AND HIS VOLNG KhLAlIVES IN THE STREETS OF PARIS. young ladies. The old statesman accepted all theseattentions modestly, considering them as offered,through him, to his native land. During the rest of his visit to France, Frank-lins life was filled with solicitude for his nativeland; but now, by the authority of the Frenchking, armies and fleets were sent, by the help ofwhich we were finally able to capture Cornwallisand secure our independence. At length, weary and ill, Franklin asked for hisrecall; he had signed the treaty of peace withEngland, thus crowning his mission with success.So in March, 1785, after nearly nine years resi- H.T.&G.D. II. 26. You replace Dr. Franklin, I hear, the Kingsminister is reported to have said. I succeed—no one can replace him, wasJeffersons witty and truthful reply. And it was true; for no American could havesurpassed Benjamin Franklin in the patience,cheerfulness, and wise statesmanship with whichhe had carried out the mission his strug

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