{"id":75,"date":"2023-11-22T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=75"},"modified":"2023-11-23T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:04:48","slug":"benjamin-franklin-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/benjamin-franklin-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Franklin’s Junto Questions<\/p>\n

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1. Have you met with any thing in the author you last read, remarkable, or suitable to be communicated to the Junto? particularly in history, morality, poetry, physics, travels, mechanic arts, or other parts of knowledge?<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0What new story have you lately heard agreeable for telling in conversation?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Hath any citizen in your knowledge failed in his business lately, and what have you heard of the cause?<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Have you lately heard of any citizen\u2019s thriving well, and by what means?<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Have you lately heard how any present rich man, here or elsewhere, got his estate?<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Do you know of any fellow citizen, who has lately done a worthy action, deserving praise and imitation? or who has committed an error proper for us to be warned against and avoid?<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed or heard? of imprudence? of passion? or of any other vice or folly?<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0What happy effects of temperance? of prudence? of moderation? or of any other virtue?<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Have you or any of your acquaintance been lately sick or wounded? If so, what remedies were used, and what were their effects?<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Who do you know that are shortly going [on] voyages or journies, if one should have occasion to send by them?<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0Do you think of any thing at present, in which the Junto may be serviceable to mankind? to their country, to their friends, or to themselves?<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0Hath any deserving stranger arrived in town since last meeting, that you heard of? and what have you heard or observed of his character or merits? and whether think you, it lies in the power of the Junto to oblige him, or encourage him as he deserves?<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0Do you know of any deserving young beginner lately set up, whom it lies in the power of the Junto any way to encourage?<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0Have you lately observed any defect in the laws of your country, of which it would be proper to move the legislature an amendment? Or do you know of any beneficial law that is wanting?<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0Have you lately observed any encroachment on the just liberties of the people?<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0Hath any body attacked your reputation lately? and what can the Junto do towards securing it?<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0Is there any man whose friendship you want, and which the Junto, or any of them, can procure for you?<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0Have you lately heard any member\u2019s character attacked, and how have you defended it?<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0Hath any man injured you, from whom it is in the power of the Junto to procure redress?<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0In what manner can the Junto, or any of them, assist you in any of your honourable designs?<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0Have you any weighty affair in hand, in which you think the advice of the Junto may be of service?<\/p>\n

22.\u00a0What benefits have you lately received from any man not present?<\/p>\n

23.\u00a0Is there any difficulty in matters of opinion, of justice, and injustice, which you would gladly have discussed at this time?<\/p>\n

24.\u00a0Do you see any thing amiss in the present customs or proceedings of the Junto, which might be amended?<\/p>\n

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