The Epitaph - “Here He Lyes”
An epitaph on Captain John Smith’s grave reads: “Here lyes one conquered, that hath conquered Kings,/Subdu’d large Territories , and done things/Which to the world impossible would seem/But that the Truth is held in more esteem.” The poetical attitude on the epitaph renders the captain a valiant and believable persona who ominously bankrolled American history through his gallant routs.
Franklin’s Family - “The Way to Wealth”
Franklin’s household was underprivileged, but his circumstances did not encumber his willpower to be an accomplished writer: “When Franklin was sixteen, and in the fourth year of a miserable apprenticeship to his brother, James, a Boston printer, because their father had no money to send any of the ten Franklin sons to college (There were seven more daughters), he pulled off his stunt, or at least the first one that anyone knows about. Disguising his handwriting, he wrote an essay under the pen name “Silence Dogood” and slipped it under the printing house door. James, who, like may masters, beat his apprentice, had no idea his pet of a little brother was the author, and printed not only that first essay, but thirteen more in his newspaper.” Franklin does not resign to the conspicuous deficiency of his household. The numerous offspring in the family means that they strained pointedly to even meeting fundamentals; hence, college attendance is not a surety. Franklin rises above the desolation (which the apprenticeship embodies) to inaugurate is writing career without his brother’s know-how. Perhaps if he had utilized a straightforward methodology, he would not have thriven in publishing the ensuing essays. Accordingly, ‘the way to wealth’ occasionally calls for wittiness.
