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MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

VOL. V.

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

ОР

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

LL.D. F.R.S. &c.

MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AT THE COURT OF FRANCE, AND FOR THE TREATY OF PEACE
AND INDEPENDENCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN, &c. &c.

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POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS,
PublishED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. V.

POSTHUMOUS AND OTHER WRITINGS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, CONDUIT STREET.

1819.

ON

1888

INST

ΝΟΣ

London:

Printed by A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane.

PREFACE

ΤΟ

THE SECOND EDITION

OF THE

POSTHUMOUS AND OTHER WRITINGS.

WITH the present Volumes the Editor conceives that he has completely redeemed his pledge to the Public, and faithfully discharged his trust as the conservator of Dr. Franklin's literary remains.

It is a common complaint that the reputation of men of eminence in the world of letters suffers by their posthumous works; nothing however of that kind is to be apprehended in regard to the present collection, for many the fugitive Essays here assembled, and the

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