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 WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.1844 |
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... nature of their contents , and their importance to the public . A fourth edition of that work , in a handsome quarto volume , was published in 1769 , greatly enlarged by the addition of other papers on various philosophical subjects ...
... nature of their contents , and their importance to the public . A fourth edition of that work , in a handsome quarto volume , was published in 1769 , greatly enlarged by the addition of other papers on various philosophical subjects ...
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... nature . The Editor's notes throughout the work , and the historical remarks at the beginning of many of the essays and political treatises , are intended strictly as illustrations of the author's text , and not as com- mentaries or ...
... nature . The Editor's notes throughout the work , and the historical remarks at the beginning of many of the essays and political treatises , are intended strictly as illustrations of the author's text , and not as com- mentaries or ...
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... composing for the second edition of Wollaston's " Religion of Nature . " Some of his reasonings not appearing to me well found- A comedian of eminence . ed , I wrote a little metaphysical piece in which 56 [ 1725 . LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... composing for the second edition of Wollaston's " Religion of Nature . " Some of his reasonings not appearing to me well found- A comedian of eminence . ed , I wrote a little metaphysical piece in which 56 [ 1725 . LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency . " It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it , for it increased and strengthened the clamor for more money ; and , they happening to have no writers ...
... Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency . " It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it , for it increased and strengthened the clamor for more money ; and , they happening to have no writers ...
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... nature , that for a subscription library . I drew up the proposals , got them put into form by our great scrivener , Brockden , and , by the help of my friends in the Junto , procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin ...
... nature , that for a subscription library . I drew up the proposals , got them put into form by our great scrivener , Brockden , and , by the help of my friends in the Junto , procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin ...
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