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" A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 356
1886
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Franklin on Franklin

Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 330 pages
...incredible. These, with pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread every where) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him...
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Gordon S. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 324 pages
...pocketknives. Franklin told his daughter that the "incredible" numbers of images spread everywhere "have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon."49 Not only did Jean-Antoine Houdon and Jean-Jacques Caffieri mold busts of Franklin, in marble,...
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Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America

Ralph Frasca - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 307 pages
...France, where "the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies ere spread every where) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon," Franklin explained to his daughter, "so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run...
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Gordon S. Wood - History - 2006 - 344 pages
...statues, in prints; women did their hair a la Franklin. Franklin told his daughter that all these images have made "your father's face as well known as that of the moon."40 The king, Louis XVI, became so jealous of the adoration paid Franklin by a member of his court...
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The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature

Kevin J. Hayes - History - 2008 - 653 pages
...ultimate ramifications. Combined with engraved prints and other likenesses, these medallions, he told her, "have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him...
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 100, no. 4)

276 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon.20 Enthusiasm for fighting on the side of the Colonists grew to such proportions that even Vergennes...
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