Madison & Adams Press presents to you this meticulously edited collection of essential works to read, prepared by Dr. Eliot, the longest running president of the Harvard University:
V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn
V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius
V. 3: Bacon, Milton's Prose, Browne
V. 4 Complete Poems by John Milton
V. 5: Essays & English Traits by Emerson
V. 6: Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
V. 7: The Confessions of Saint Augustine & The Imitation of Christ
V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas
V. 9: Cicero and Pliny
V. 10: The Wealth of Nations
V. 11: The Origin of Species
V. 12: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
V. 13: Aeneid
V. 14: Don Quixote
V. 15: Bunyan & Walton
V. 16: The Thousand and One Nights
V. 17: Folklore & Fable: Aesop, Grimm & Andersen
V. 18: Modern English Drama
V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe
V. 20: The Divine Comedy
V. 21: I Promessi Sposi
V. 22: The Odyssey
V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast
V. 24: Edmund Burke: French Revolution…
V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle
V. 26: Continental Drama
V. 27: English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
V. 28: Essays: English and American
V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle
V. 30: Scientific Papers
V. 31: Benvenuto Cellini
V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays
V. 33: Voyages & Travels
V. 34: French & English Philosophers
V. 35: Chronicle and Romance
V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther
V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
V. 39: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
V. 40: English Poetry 1: from Chaucer to Gray
V. 41: English Poetry 2: from Collins to Fitzgerald
V. 42: English Poetry 3: from Tennyson to Whitman
V. 43: American Historical Documents
V. 44: Sacred Writings 1: Confucian, Hebrew & Christian
V. 45: Sacred Writings 2: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu & Mohammedan
V. 46: Elizabethan Drama 1: Marlowe & Shakespeare
V. 47: Elizabethan Drama 2: Dekker, Jonson, Webster, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher
V. 48: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works of Pascal
V. 49: Epic and Saga
V. 50: The Editor's Introduction & Reader's Guide
V. 51: Lectures
Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.
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