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MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

WITH HIS

MOST INTERESTING ESSAYS, LETTERS, AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS; FAMILIAR, MORAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL.

SELECTED WITH CARE

FROM ALL HIS PUBLISHED PRODUCTIONS, AND COMPRISING WHATEVER IS MOST ENTERTAINING AND VALUABLE TO THE GENERAL READER.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

MEMOIRS OF FRANKLIN.

PART I.

FOOTNOTES:

PART II.

FOOTNOTES:

PART III.

FOOTNOTES:

WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN.

MEMOIRSOF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN;WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

CONTENTSOF THE SECOND VOLUME.

ESSAYS, HUMOROUS, MORAL, ECONOMICAL, AND POLITICAL.

THE WAY TO WEALTH,

ON TRUE HAPPINESS.

PUBLIC MEN

THE WASTE OF LIFE.

SELF-DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE.

ON THE USEFULNESS OF THE MATHEMATICS.

THE ART OF PROCURING PLEASANT DREAMS.

ADVICE TO A YOUNG TRADESMAN.

RULES OF HEALTH.

THE EPHEMERA; AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE.

THE WHISTLE.

ON LUXURY, IDLENESS, AND INDUSTRY.[2]

ON TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.

NECESSARY HINTS TO THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH.

THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY PLENTY IN EVERY MAN'S POCKET.

THE HANDSOME AND DEFORMED LEG.

ON HUMAN VANITY.

ON SMUGGLING, AND ITS VARIOUS SPECIES.

REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA.

ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS.

ON THE PRICE OF CORN, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE POOR.

SINGULAR CUSTOM AMONG THE AMERICANS, ENTITLED WHITEWASHING.

ON THE CRIMINAL LAWS AND THE PRACTICE OF PRIVATEERING.

LETTER FROM ANTHONY AFTERWIT.

LETTERS.

PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN ESSAYS

INTRODUCTION

THE EPHEMERA: AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE TO MADAME BRILLON, OF PASSY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

THE WHISTLE TO MADAME BRILLON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND THE GOUT

CONSOLATION FOR THE OLD BACHELOR FRANCIS HOPKINSON

JOHN BULL WASHINGTON IRVING

THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY WASHINGTON IRVING

KEAN’S ACTING RICHARD HENRY DANA

GIFTS RALPH WALDO EMERSON

USES OF GREAT MEN RALPH WALDO EMERSON

BUDS AND BIRD-VOICES NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION EDGAR ALLAN POE

BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

WALKING HENRY DAVID THOREAU

ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS[5] JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

PREFACE TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" 1855 WALT WHITMAN

AMERICANISM IN LITERATURE THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

THACKERAY IN AMERICA GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

OUR MARCH TO WASHINGTON THEODORE WINTHROP THROUGH THE CITY

PHILADELPHIA

THE "BOSTON"

ANNAPOLIS

WHAT THE MASSACHUSETTS EIGHTH HAD BEEN DOING

OUR MORNING MARCH

ON GUARD WITH HOWITZER NO. TWO

THE BRIDGE

THE NIGHT-MARCH

MORNING

WASHINGTON

CALVIN A STUDY OF CHARACTER CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

FIVE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT

I TALK OF DREAMS W. D. Howells

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE JOHN BURROUGHS

CUT-OFF COPPLES’S CLARENCE KING

THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS HENRY JAMES

THEOCRITUS ON CAPE COD HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES[9] HENRY CABOT LODGE

NEW YORK AFTER PARIS W. C. Brownell

THE TYRANNY OF THINGS EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN

FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION IN LITERATURE SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS

DANTE AND THE BOWERY THEODORE ROOSEVELT

THE REVOLT OF THE UNFIT NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER

ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE W. P. TRENT

THE WAY TO WEALTH.

Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THE FIRST BALLOONS.

(THE FIRST HYDROGEN BALLOON.)

(A HOT AIR BALLOON CARRYING ANIMALS.)

(THE FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE BY MAN.)

(POSTPONEMENT OF CHARLES’ AND ROBERT’S ASCENSION.)

(THE SECOND AERIAL VOYAGE BY MAN.)

(SOME PARTICULARS OF THE SECOND VOYAGE.)

NOTES CONCERNING THE LETTERS.

EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY,

The PREFACE.

LETTER I.

LETTER II.

LETTER III.

LETTER IV.

ADDITIONAL PAPERS.

CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS to the Preceding Papers.

FOOTNOTES.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LLD

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Collected Works of Benjamin Franklin

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