Front matter
Reading edition
THE DUPLESSIS PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN
The True Benjamin Franklin
By Sydney George Fisher
Author of “Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times,” “The Making of Pennsylvania,” “The Evolution of the Constitution,” etc.
“If rigid moral analysis be not the purpose of historical writing, there is no more value in it than in the fictions of mythological antiquity.”—Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
FIFTH EDITION
WITH AN APPENDIX
Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company 1903
Copyright, 1898
BY
J. B. Lippincott Company