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via Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.
CONTENTS
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THE SECOND VOLUME.
ESSAYS.
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The Way to Wealth; as clearly shown in the practice of
an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, “Poor Richard
Improved”
5
On True Happiness
14
Public Men
The Waste of Life
22
Self-denial not the Essence of Virtue .
25
On the Usefulness of the Mathematics
27
The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams
31
Advice to a young Tradesman
37
Rules of Health
39
The Ephemera ; an Emblem of Human Life. To Madame
Brillon, of Passy
The Whistle. Tó Madame Brillon
42
On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry
45
On Truth and Falsehood
50
Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich
53
The Way to make Money plenty in every Man's Pocket 54
The Handsome and Deformed Leg
55
On Human Vanity
58
On Smuggling, and its various Species
62
Remarks concerning the Savages of North America
66
On Freedom of Speech and the Press
71
On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor 82
Singular Custom among the Americans, entitled White-
washing
On the Criminal Laws and the Practice of Privateering 94
Letter from Anthony Afterwit
102
LETTERS.
To Mrs. Abiah Franklin
107
To Miss Jane Franklin
108
To the same
109
To Mr. George Whitefield
110
To Mrs. D. Franklin
112
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To Mrs. Jane Mecom
To Miss Stevenson
To Lord Kames
To John Alleyne
To Governor Franklin .
To Dr. Priestley
To the same.
To Mr. Mather
To Mr. Strahan
To Mrs. Thompson
To Mr. Lith.
Answer to a Letter from Brussels
To Dr. Price
To General Washington
To M. Court de Gebelin
To Francis Hopkinson
To Samuel Huntingdon, President of Congress
To the Bishop of St. Asaph
To Miss Alexander
To Benjamin Vaughan
To Mrs. Hewson
To David Hartley
To Dr. Percival
To Sir Joseph Banks
To Robert Morris, Esq.
To Dr. Mather
To William Strahan, M.P.
To George Wheatley
To the Bishop St. Asaph
To M. Veillard
To Mr. Jordain
To Miss Hubbard
To B. Vaughan
To the President of Congress
To Mrs. Green
To Dr Price
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