AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME COMPILED AND EDITED BY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND IN ELEVEN VOLUMES VOL. III. NEW-YORK CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY 1892 HARVARD COLLEGE MAY 16 1921 Gift of COPYRIGHT, 1883. BY CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY. (All rights reserved.) PRESS OF JENKINS & MCCOWAN, NEW YORK. CONTENTS OF VOLUME III That Lightning usually passes from Earth to the Clouds Franklin before the House of Commons Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout To George Whitefield, On Faith and Good Works To Joseph Priestley, With a Method of deciding Doubtful Matters To William Strahan, After the War had Begun To his Daughter, Mrs. Sarah Bache, On Hereditary Titles and Honors To Thomas Paine, Dissuading him from publishing a Certain Work To Noah Webster, On New-Fangled Modes of Writing and Printing |