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THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

591692.

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

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1912

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THE

WORKS

OF

DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

IN

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND MORALS:

CONTAINING, BESIDE ALL THE WRITINGS PUBLISHED
IN FORMER COLLECTIONS, HIS

DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE,

AS MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES, AT

THE COURT OF VERSAILLES;

A VARIETY OF LITERARY ARTICLES,

AND

EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE,

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED:

WITH

MEMOIRS AND ANECDOTES OF HIS LIFE.

VOL. V.

PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DUANE.

1809.
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DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Twentieth day of February, in the Thirty Third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1809, WILLIAM DUANE of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in Philosophy, "Politics, and Morals: containing, beside all the Writings published. " in former Collections, his Diplomatic Correspondence, as minister of "the United States, at the Court of Versailles; a variety of Literary Articles, and Epistolary Correspondence never before published: With Memoirs and Anecdotes of his Life."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intid, "an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the es of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such ies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entid, "an Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the enouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times. .herein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL

Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.