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TECHNOLOGY > statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer > Benjamin Franklin
Every accent, every...
Vendor: TECH & SCIENCE
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse . . .
Source: Autobiography, ch. 8 (written 1771 --90; published 1868), said of the Irish itinerant preacher the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1739.
-- Benjamin Franklin, (Jan 17 1706-1790), US statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer; He published Poor Richard's Almanac, 1732-57 ; invented bifocal glasses and the lightning rod.