Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself, Volume II (of 2)

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Author

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Title

Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader

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E-text prepared by Steven Gibbs, Richard J. Shiffer, and the Distributed Proofreading volunteers ( www.pgdp.net) for Project Gutenberg

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Correspondence

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40236

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40236

Release Date

July 14, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
3. 3.ESSAYS, HUMOROUS, MORAL, ECONOMICAL, AND POLITICAL. — THE WAY TO WEALTH, — ON TRUE HAPPINESS. — PUBLIC MEN — THE WASTE OF LIFE. — SELF-DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE. — ON THE USEFULNESS OF THE MATHEMATICS. — THE ART OF PROCURING PLEASANT DREAMS. — ADVICE TO A YOUNG TRADESMAN. — RULES OF HEALTH. — THE EPHEMERA; AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE. — THE WHISTLE. — ON LUXURY, IDLENESS, AND INDUSTRY. [2] — ON TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. — NECESSARY HINTS TO THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH. — THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY PLENTY IN EVERY MAN'S POCKET. — THE HANDSOME AND DEFORMED LEG. — ON HUMAN VANITY. — ON SMUGGLING, AND ITS VARIOUS SPECIES. — REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA. — ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS. — ON THE PRICE OF CORN, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE POOR. — SINGULAR CUSTOM AMONG THE AMERICANS, ENTITLED WHITEWASHING. — ON THE CRIMINAL LAWS AND THE PRACTICE OF PRIVATEERING. — LETTER FROM ANTHONY AFTERWIT.
4. 4.LETTERS.
5. 5.PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

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