Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin: Comprising the Private Correspondence and Public Negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a Selection from His Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works, Volume 3

Henry Colburn, 1818

WRITINGS	2

AMERICAN POLITICS	3

1st Letter to Governor Shirley concerning the imposition of direct Taxes upon the Colonies	20

Plan for settling two Western Colonies in North America with reasons for the plan	27

Remarks and facts relative to the American Paper Money	34

Causes of the American Discontents before 1768	43

Corollaries from the foregoing principles	61

Rules for reducing a great Empire to a small one presented to a late Minister when	69

Observations on Mayz or Indian Corn	276

Observations relative to the Intentions of the Original Founders of the Academy in Phila	283

Hints for consideration respecting the Orphan School House in Philadelphia	302

Proposed New Version of the Bible	308

The Ephemera an emblem of Human Life	316

Morals of Chess	322

Letters to Madame Helvetius	332

An humble Petition presented to Madame Helvetius by her Cats with an English Translation	340

Paper written in England by Dr Franklin to discourage the intended Act for preventing	77

Vindication and offer from Congress to Parliament in 1775	84

On the PaperMoney of the United States of America	98

PART II	110

On the price of Corn and management of the Poor	123

Observations on	131

On the Institution in Holland to prevent Poverty	139

Principles of Trade	145

Reflections on Coin in general	162

MISCELLANIES	187

A Parable against Persecution in imitation of Scriptural language	193

SECTION II	200

To the BusyBody	208

A Second Dialogue by the same	225

Selfdenial not the essence of Virtue	233

Oa Discoveries	239

Advice to a young Tradesman	245

A Thought concerning the Medals to be struck by order of Congress	255

Internal state of America in 1784 Page	267

On Wine addressed to the Abbé Morellet	347

Description of a new Musical Instrument composed of Glasses called the Armonica	355

On the Colica Pictorum and pernicious use of Lead in Distilleries To Dr Evans	368

On the free use of Air To Monsieur Dubourg	374

On Rain in a letter to Dr Percival	386

On the Spots in the Sun a new hypothesis	398

On the mode of rendering Meat tender by Electricity	405

Preparatory Notes and Hints for writing a paper concerning what is called Catching Cold	411

On the stilling of Waves by means of Oil extracted from letters between Dr Franklin	424

On ElectricityThe Leyden Bottle and M Voltas Experiment	439

On the long retention of Infection in Dead Bodies after Sepulture c To Monsieur Vicq	445

On an Electrical Experiment	457

Proposal for a slowly sensible Hygrometer for certain purposes addressed to Mr Nairne	464

On the causes and cure of Smoky Chimnies	479

New method of Warming and keeping Rooms Warm in a letter to James Bowdoin	505

84	548

On the pernicious quality of Lead c addressed to B Vaughan	554

Attempt to explain the effects of Lightning on the vane of the Steeple of a Church in Cre	563

Thoughts concerning the Sugar Islands	565

Title	Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin: Comprising the Private Correspondence and Public Negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a Selection from His Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works, Volume 3
Author	Benjamin Franklin
Edition	2
Publisher	Henry Colburn, 1818
Original from	Austrian National Library
Digitized	26 Feb 2014

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