MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIBRARY OF
ERNEST LEWIS GAY
JUNE 15, 1927

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, by HILLIard, Gray, and Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
Jul 27

BOSTON:

PRESS or GEORGE O. RAND,

CORNHILL.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME SECOND.

ESSAYS ON RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SUBJECTS

AND THE ECONOMY OF LIFE.

Dialogue between Philocles and Horatio, concerning

Virtue and Pleasure.

A Second Dialogue between Philocles and Horatio,

concerning Virtue and Pleasure

73

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

89

92

103

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125

Sketch of an English School
Observations relative to the Intentions of the original
Founders of the Academy in Philadelphia. . 133
Hints for Consideration respecting the Orphan School-
House in Philadelphia

159

161

BAGATELLES.

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

The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams
The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life

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

Superintendency of Education

The Handsome and. Deformed Leg

ESSAYS ON GENERAL POLITICS, COMMERCE,
AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a

On Freedom of Speech and the Press

Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind and

Remarks on some of the Foregoing Observations, showing
particularly the Effects which Manners have on
Population

Remarks on Judge Foster's Argument in Favor of the
Right of Impressing Seamen

Remarks and Facts relative to the American Paper

Money

285

. 311

321

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355

. 361

On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor
On Smuggling, and its Various Species

377

Positions to be examined, concerning National Wealth. 373
Plan for Benefiting distant unprovided Countries.
Concerning the Provision made in China against Famine 381
Principles of Trade

Reflections on Coin in general, being an Appendix to

the above Essay

Notions concerning Trade and Merchants

A Thought concerning the Sugar Islands

383

On the Paper Money of the United States of America. 421
Comparison of Great Britain and the United States, in

Regard to the Basis of Credit in the two Countries 426
Reflections on the Augmentation of Wages, which will
be occasioned in Europe by the American
Revolution

On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry

Remarks concerning the Savages of North America.
The Internal State of America; being a true Description

of the Interest and Policy of that vast Continent
Information to those who would remove to America
On the Criminal Laws and the Practice of Privateering
Observations on War

On the Elective Franchises, enjoyed by the small
Boroughs in England

Sir Charles Wyvill's Answer to the foregoing Paper
Militia preferable to Regular Troops

On sending Felons to America

The Retort Courteous

An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in
Pennsylvania, viz. The Court of the Press
Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks
An Address to the Public; from the Pennsylvania
Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery,

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