Page 6 Flashcards

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Una historia de las letras americanas no puede prescindir de Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90).

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A history of American letters cannot dispense with Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90).

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Sus intereses fueron multiples; la tipografía, el periodismo, la agricultura, la higiene, la navegación, la diplomacia, la política, la pedagogía, la ética, la música, y la religion atarearon su enérgica inteligencia.

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His [Franklin’s] interests were multiple; printing, journalism, farming, hygiene, navigation [sailing], diplomacy, politics, education, ethics, music, and religion exercised [tasked] his intellectual energies.

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Fundó el primer periodico y la primera revista de América.

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He [Franklin] founded the first newspaper and the first magazine in America.

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Ni una sola de los miles de páginas que redactó fue para él un fin sino un medio.

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Not one of the thousands of pages that he [Franklin] wrote was for him an end but a means.

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Los diez volúmenes de su obra son circunstanciales; escribió siempre para lograr un efecto inmediato, ajeno a la pura literatura.

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The ten volumes of his work are circumstantial; he [Franklin] wrote always in order to achieve an immediate effect, alien to [far removed from] pure literature.

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Esta índole práctica de su labor nos recuerda a Sarmiento, que tanto lo veneró, pero en la lúcida obra de Franklin no resplandece la passion que ilumina el Facundo.

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This practical nature of his labor reminds us of Sarmiento, who also venerated him, but in Franklin’s clear work there does not shine the passion that illuminates Facundo.

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En su Autobiografía están las etapas de tan versatil y admirable destino.

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In his [Franklin’s] Autobiography there are [descriptions of] the stages of his versatile and admirable destiny [career].

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Nació en Boston, hijo de padres humildes; fue un autodidacto.

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He [Franklin] was born in Boston, the son of humble parents; he was an autodidact.

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Asi, para aparender el arte de la prosa, releía, olvidaba y reconstruía los ensayos de Addison.

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Thus in order to learn the art of prose, he [Franklin] read, forgot, and reconstructed Addison’s essays.

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Un encargo official de adquirir materials de imprenta lo llevó a Londres en 1724.

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An official errand to purchase materials for a printing press took him [Franklin] to London in 1724.

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A los veintidós años fundó una religión, que no ha prosperado, cuyo mandamiento esencial era hacer el bien.

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At the age of twenty-two years he [Franklin] founded a religion, which had not prospered, whose essential command was to do good.

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Proyectó asimismo una policía urbana, un sistema de alumbrado publico y planes de pavimentación de las calles.

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He [Franklin] also planned a city police force, a system of public lighting and planes for paved streets.

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Creó también la primera biblioteca circulante.

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He [Franklin] also imagined [founded] the first circulating library.

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Se lo ha llamado, no sin algún desdén, el profeta del sentido común.

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He [Franklin] has been called, not without some disdain, the prophet [apostle] of common sense.

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Al comienzo se opuso a la desunion de Inglaterra y sus colonias; luego fue un fervoroso partidario de la independencia de América.

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At the beginning he [Franklin] was opposed to the break between England and its colonies; then he was a fervent supporter of American independence.

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En 1778, el gobierno republican lo nombró ministro plenipotenciario en París.

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In 1778, the republican government named him [Franklin] the plenipotentiary secretary [ambassador] in Paris.

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Francia vio en él un alto ejemplar del Homme de la nature; Voltaire lo abrazó públicamente.

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France saw in him [Franklin] a high example of the man of nature; Voltaire publicly embraced him.

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Le agradaban, como a Poe, las mistificaciones.

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Like Poe, he [Franklin] was pleased by mystification.