The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Tập 5

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Macmillan, 1906
 

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To James Bowdoin
297
To Samuel Cooper October 2 1770
298
February 5 1771
304
To Samuel Rhoads February 10 1771
305
March
307
To Robert Morris and Thomas Leach March 5 1771
309
To Jonathan Williams March 5 1771
310
To Mrs Williams March 5 1771
311
547 To the Library Company of Philadelphia April 16 1771
313
To the Committee of Correspondence in Massachusetts May 15 1771
314
To Isaac Smith May 17 1771
320
To Mrs Deborah Franklin June 5 1771
321
To Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Asaph June
323
From Samuel Cooper to Benjamin Franklin July 10 1771
355
To James Bowdoin
358
To Dr Joshua Babcock
361
To Thomas Cushing 574 To Samuel Franklin January 13 1772
363
To Ezra Stiles January 13 1772
371
To Mrs Deborah Franklin January 28 1772
373
January 28 1772
379
February 5 1772
388
89 To Major Dawson May 29 1772
397
To M Du Pont de Nemours June 15 1772
405
To Francis Maseres June 17 1772
407
To Mrs Deborah Franklin July 14 1772
408
To M Du Pont de Nemours August 12 1772
409
Report on Lightning Conductors for the Powder Magazines
416
To Rev William Smith August 22 1772
431
To Joseph Galloway December 2 1772
459
Settlement on the Ohio River 1772
465
APPENDIX NO PAGE 626 To Peter Franklin
529
On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor
534
Directions for discovering whether the Power that gives the Shock in touching the Torpedo or the Gymnotus of Suri nam is Electrical or Not
539
On Rainfall
540
Art of Swimming
542
Art of Swimming
546
Petition of the Letter Z
550
Effect of Vegetation on Air
551
On Sea Coal
552
Observations on Mayz or Indian Corn
553

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Trang 491 - Company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and northwest...
Trang 436 - ... pro, I strike out the five; and thus proceeding I find at length where the balance lies; and if after a day or two of further consideration, nothing new that is of importance occurs on either side, I come to a determination accordingly. And though the weight of reasons cannot be taken with the precision of algebraic quantities, yet when each is thus considered separately and comparatively, and the whole lies before me, I think I can judge better, and am less likely to make a rash step; and in...
Trang 533 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Trang 365 - Parliament. I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing weight might in time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more equitable treatment from this nation might be obtained for them as well as for us.
Trang 158 - Treat your wife always with respect; it will procure respect to you, not only from her, but from all that observe it. Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest ; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.
Trang 237 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Trang 538 - This letter is without date, but was probably written in the year 1771, since it was in answer to a letter dated in May of that year. It was first printed in the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, Vol.
Trang 123 - I fear the giving mankind a dependance on any thing for support, in age or sickness, besides industry and frugality during youth and health, tends to flatter our natural indolence, to encourage idleness and prodigality, and thereby to promote and increase poverty, the very evil it was intended to cure ; thus multiplying beggars instead of diminishing them.
Trang 467 - The proposition of forming inland colonies in America is, we humbly conceive, entirely new; it adopts principles in respect to American settlements different from what has hitherto been the policy of this kingdom; and leads to a system which, if pursued through all its consequences, is in the present state of this country of the greatest importance.
Trang 471 - Spaniards ; it does appear to us, that the extension of the fur trade depends entirely upon the Indians being undisturbed in the possession of their hunting grounds ; that all colonizing does in its nature, and must in its consequences, operate to the prejudice of that branch of commerce...

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