The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited With a Life and Introduction; 1722-1750 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Smyth, Albert Henry

9781331260684: The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited With a Life and Introduction; 1722-1750 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited With a Life and Introduction; 1722-1750

Passages in sailing westward than in sailing eastward, because Franklin desired that the letter should not be re printed. He discovered that his theory, which related to the diurnal motion of the earth, was quite untenable, and he so informed Jonathan Williams in a letter dated January 19, 1786.

The Prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanac are here for the first time reprinted in any collection of Franklin's works. All are included in this volume except those that relate to the making of wine, the appearance of the planets, and Middleton's account of life in the region of Hudson's Bay.

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Excerpt from The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited With a Life and Introduction; 1722-1750

Everything of literary interest or historic value written by Franklin between 1722 and 1750 is included in this volume. I have omitted a few essays which have appeared in previous editions; some because they were not written by Franklin, and others because they are quite worthless. Thus the two papers "On Government" (Bigelow, I: 425) were written by George Webbe, who acknowledged the authorship in the columns of The Pennsylvania Gazette. The essays on "Public Men," "Self Denial," "The Usefulness of Mathematics," "True Happiness," "On Discoveries," "The Waste of Life," "The Causes of Earthquakes," "The Drinker's Dictionary," "A Case of Casuistry," have been ascribed to Franklin on insufficient evidence, and arc at any rate dull and trivial.

Their place has been taken in this volume by certain highly characteristic contributions made by Franklin to The Pennsylvania Gazette - "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly," "An Apology for Printers," "How to protect Towns from Fire," "Shavers and Trimmers," and "A Meditation on a Quart Mugg." I have reprinted "The Dialogues on Virtue and Pleasure" because Franklin refers to them with satisfaction in his Autobiography.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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