Volume 1

The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ... comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects: written between the years 1753 and 1790; illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations / Published from the originals by his grandson William Temple Franklin.

  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date:
1817
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Credit: The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ... comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects: written between the years 1753 and 1790; illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations / Published from the originals by his grandson William Temple Franklin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tinction in political revolutions, and the founda- tion of new states: for hereby are unfolded the motives of individuals, and the influence of parties ; from whose pertinacity and intrigues proceed conflicts, projects, and establishments which the agitators never contemplated, and which the most sagacious observers of human nature gpald not have anticipated. - Among the changes that have mens: Tolan in the American colonies from the parent country has been by far the most prolific and extensive in its effects of any in the history of modern ages. | ‘a It is presumed, therefore, that little need be said ‘on the value of the correspondence of Dr. FRANKLIN, whose extraordinary abilities as a statesman were felt and acknowledged in both countries, and by persons of opposite sentiments. But what renders his letters on the public con- cerns in which he was engaged peculiarly interest- ing, is the spirit of candour that runs through the whole of them, and the ‘style of simplicity by which they are recommended as “models of epis-