Tuesday, October 09, 2007

A laborious and fatiguing operation

Benjamin Franklin's "On the Art of Swimming" (courtesy of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online)




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3 comments:

  1. Lauren Klein10/10/2007 10:15 AM

    thanks for posting this! i've always been fascinated by the swimming-as-diplomacy bit in the autobiography, and this is even better!

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  2. Anonymous10/10/2007 10:34 AM

    oh my god, i can't believe he said the d-word. hyuk, hyuk..

    nina

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  3. Anonymous10/10/2007 11:04 AM

    Wonderful!

    I will, however, refrain from treating leg cramps with any kind of a shock! ;-)

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