THE

WORKS

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN;

CONTAINING

SEVERAL POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL TRACTS

NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER EDITION,

AND

MANY LETTERS OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE

NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED;

WTB

NOTES

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

BY JARED SPARKS.

VOLUME 1.

REVISED EDITION.

PIIILADELPHIA:
CHILDS & PETERSON, 602 ARCH ST.

1840

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1840, by

HILLIARD, GRAY & co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME SECOND.

ESSAYS ON RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SUBJECTS

AND THE ECONOMY OF LIFE.

Page.

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Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion

Rules for a Club established for Mutual Improvement

The Busy Body

No. I.

No. II.

No. III.

No. IV.

No. V.

No. VIII.

Dialogue between Philocles and Horatio, concerning

Virtue and Pleasure

A Second Dialogue between Philocles and Horatio,

concerning Virtue and Pleasure

Public Men

Self-Denial not the Essence of Virtue

On the Usefulness of the Mathematics

On True Happiness

On Discoveries

46

.

63

66

92

103

.

The Waste of Life

Necessary Hints to those that would be rich

The Way to make Money plenty in every Man's Pocket

Rivalship in Almanac-Making

Rules of Health

Advice to a Young Tradesman

Plan for saving One Hundred Thousand Pounds

The Way to Wealth ; being a Summary of the Maxims

and Proverbs in Poor Richard's Almanac

Observations on Mayz, or Indian Corn

Precautions to be used by those who are about to

undertake a Sea Voyage

Toleration in Old England and New England,

A Parable against Persecution.

A Parable on Brotherly Love

Sketch of an English School

Observations relative to the Intentions of the original

Founders of the Academy in Philadelphia .

Hints for Consideration respecting the Orphan School-

House in Philadelphia

Paper, a Poem

106

112

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118

123

125

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133

159

161

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BAGATELLES.

The Levee

164

Proposed New Version of the Bible

166

Apologue

168

To Miss Georgiana Shipley, on the Loss of her Squirrel 170

The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams

171

The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life

The Whistle

180

A Petition of the Left Hand, to those who have the

Superintendency of Education

183

The Handsome and Deformed Leg

185

177

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