And finally he offered this advice to young tradesmen. God grant it may long so continue.” To promote the teaching of penmanship Franklin, like William Mather, included four plates of examples of good handwriting, 9 as well as a description of the Twelve Ciphers which his late friend Joseph Breintnall had designed. 8 There were accounts of the history and government of the several colonies of Pennsylvania, however, Franklin wrote simply: “One of the happiest Countries at this Time in the World.
7 Instead of the English Instructor’s brief medical prescriptions, for example, The American Instructor reprinted John Tennent’s Every Man his own Doctor. Franklin changed the name to The American Instructor, he omitted some parts of Fisher’s book and added new material for American readers.
It was essentially but not entirely a reprinting of the English original. This was the “Ninth Edition” and was announced in the Gazette of July 21, 1748, as “just published.” Franklin imported two dozen copies in 1745 in 1747 he began to get an American edition ready. 5 A competitor of William Mather’s The Young Man’s Companion, 6 on which it was based and from which it copied many particulars, it was first published in London in 1730 or earlier a sixth edition appeared in 1742, and an eighth presumably before 1748.
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George Fisher’s The Instructor: or Young Man’s Best Companion was a popular manual of English grammar, penmanship, composition, arithmetic, bookkeeping, and other useful matters for young men entering business.
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