OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND FROM HIS PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE
AND OTHER WRITINGS,

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

VOL. I.

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'Plurimæ consentiunt gentes populi primarium fuisse virum."

CICERO DE SENECTUTE (Catonis), 61.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

JOHN BIGELOW,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

LIPPINCOTT'S PRESS,

PHILADELPHIA.

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