The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Band 9

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Macmillan, 1906 - 703 Seiten

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June 3 1783
47
To Robert R Livingston
49
To Prince des Deuxponts
50
On the Shock by the Electric
52
Glass June 14 1783
55
To Comte de Vergennes July 4 1783
55
Bottle and the Density
55
To Henry Laurens July 6 1783
58
To Robert R Livingston July 22 1783
61
To Sir Joseph Banks July 27 1783
73
To Captain Nathaniel Falconer July 28 1783
77
To Henry Laurens
78
Note by Benjamin Franklin upon a letter addressed to him by Thomas Barclay July 28 1783
83
To Comte de Vergennes August 16 1783
83
To William Hodgson 1456 To Sir Joseph Banks
83
September 5 1783
85
September 7 1783
86
To John Jay July 6 1786
91
To Josiah Quincy
93
To Elias Boudinot
96
To Richard Price
99
To Elias Boudinot September 11 1783
101
To Sir Edward Newenham October 2 1783
103
To Sir Joseph Banks October 8 1783
115
To David Hartley
115
To Edward Nairne
115
To David Hartley
115
To Elias Boudinot
115
To Sir Joseph Banks
115
To Comte de Vergennes December 6 1783
121
119
122
124
124
125
125
October 16 1783
129
November 1 1783
141
On Immigration To an Unknown Correspondent 1783
147
To Jan Ingenhousz January 16 1784
155
To Comte de Vergennes January 17 1784
157
To Mrs Georgiana HareNaylor January 25 1784
159
To Mrs Sarah Bache January 26 1784
163
To Charles W F Dumas February 1 1784
168
To Henry Laurens February 12 1784
169
To William Strahan
171
To Jean Baptiste Le Roy 1481 To Comte de Vergennes
173
To John Paul Jones March 4 1784
174
To Benjamin Vaughan March 5 1784
175
To Comte de Vergennes March 5 1784
176
To Charles Thomson March 9 1784
179
To Mrs Mary Hewson March 19 1784
180
September 12 1784
186
96
187
To John Adams March 31 1784
190
To M Mazue March 19 1784
193
To John Paul Jones March 25 1784
193
October 2 1784
209
To Conde de Campomanes June 5 1784
221
Loose Thoughts on a Universal Fluid June 25 1784
227
Of the Paper Money of the United States of America
236
To Benjamin Vaughan September 7 1784
241
To Benjamin Vaughan July 26 1784
248
To Richard Price August 16 1784
255
To George Whatley
264
To Dr Arthaud July 9 1786
266
To William Temple Franklin September 8 1784
268
To William Carmichael October 11 1784
275
To Dr Brav November 22 1784
281
To Richard Price
289
To Richard Price July 29 1786
289
To John Jay February 8 1785
289
To Benjamin Vaughan July 31 1786
291
To Francis Maseres June 26 1785
357
To Granville Sharp
357
To CharlesJoseph Mathon de la Cour July 9 1785
363
To Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont October 20 1785
364
To André Limozin
370
IIO 113
406
To John Jay September 19 1785
463
To Ferdinand Grand
471
To George Clinton July 10 1788
477
To David Hartley October 27 1785
479
To James Bowdoin
479
To Jonathan Williams
492
To Mathew Carey August 10 1786
493
On Thermometers September 13 1786
495
To Thomas Jefferson
499
November 2 1786
503
To Mrs Jane Mecom
506
May 6 1786
513
To John Franklin William Hooker Smith and John
515
To Thomas Wight Jr November 25 1786
523
To Mrs Jane Mecom July 4 1786
539
To Alexander Small
553
To Nevil Maskelyne
555
March 29 1787
558
To Comte dEstaing April 15 1787
566
To Captain Thomas de Ugarta Y Lianes December
567
To Messrs the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud April 17 1787
569
To the Marquis de Lafayette April 17 1787
571
To JeanBaptiste Le Roy April 18 1787
573
To Ferdinand Grand April 19 1787
575
To Abbé Morellet April 22 1787
579
To John Adams May 18 1787
585
Speech in the Convention On the Subject of Salaries
595
1693 Proposal for Consideration in the Convention for forming
602
To Mrs Jane Mecom September 20 1787
613
To Ferdinand Grand
619
November 4 1787
625
To Samuel Elbert December 16 1787
625
To Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston January 31 1788
632
To M Le Veillard February 17 1788
639
March 30 1788
640
Abuse of the Press
641
To Mrs Collas April 12 1788
642
To Madame Brillon April 19 1788
643
To M Le Veillard April 22 1788
647
To JosephIgnace Guillotin May 4 1788
648
To the Princess Dashkow May 7 1788
649
To Rev John Lathrop May 31 1788
651
To James Bowdoin May 31 1788
652
To Mather Byles June 1 1788
655
To M Le Veillard June 8 1788
657
To Dupont de Nemours June 9 1788
659
On
660
To Benjamin Chambers and the other Gentlemen of Cham bersburgh September 20 1788
664
To the Duc de la Rochefoucauld
665
To Miss Flainville October 23 1788
667
October 24 1788
670
October 25 1788
675
To Joseph Elam November 10 1788
681
To Francis Childs November 19 1788
682
To Mrs Elizabeth Partridge November 25 1788
683
To Mrs Jane Mecom November 26 1788
683
To Cyrus Griffin November 29 1788
683
To William Vaughan December 9 1788
683
To Abbé Morellet December 10 1788
683
To Charles Thomson
683
686
688
December 29 1788
691
A Comparison of
698
Urheberrecht

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