Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (Henry Holt and Co: New York, 1916), 78-80. In 1739, arrived among…
There is no Science, the Study of which is more useful and commendable than the…
THERE is no Science, the Study of which is more useful and commendable than the…
Many Persons in Europe having directly or by Letters, express’d to the Writer of this,…
Dear Friend, In my last per Falconer I mentioned to you my showing your Plan…
SIR, “Since the conversation your Excellency was pleased to honor me with, on the subject…
Courteous Reader, I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to…
When I consider my own Weakness, and the discerning Judgment of those who are to…
Whatever is, is in its Causes just Since all Things are by Fate; but purblind…
It is with peculiar satisfaction we assure the friends of humanity, that, in prosecuting the…
WHEREAS all government ought to be instituted and supported for the security and protection of…
My Lord, I received safe the Letters your Lordship so kindly forwarded to me, and…
POWER OF THIS COURT It may receive and promulgate accusations of all kinds against all…
To ——– Dear Sir I have read your Manuscrit with some Attention. By the Arguments…
Sir, I received your Favour of the 29th. August last and thank you for the…
Mr. Andrew Bradford, I design this to acquaint you, that I, who have long been…
GENTLEMEN, I have perused your late mathematical Prize Question, proposed in lieu of one in…
The SPEECH of Miss Polly Baker, before a Court of Judicature, at Connecticut in New…
My dear Friend, I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations…
Impia sub dulci melle venena latent. Ovid Naturam expellas furca licet, usq; recurret. Hor. There…
