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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 4, 14 May 1722 | 1722-05-14 | ...a helping Hand, and sat them in the Eye of the World, upon a Level with themselves. | |
| 2 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 5, 28 May 1722 | 1722-05-28 | ...as one of the most barbarous Customs in the World, considering us as a civiliz’d and Christian... | |
| 3 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 6, 11 June 1722 | 1722-06-11 | ...himself conquering the World; and the Inhabitants thereof consulting on proper Methods... | |
| 4 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 7, 25 June 1722 | 1722-06-25 | ...Encomium, and thereby endeavour to discover to the World some of its Beautys, in order... | |
| 5 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 14, 8 October 1722 | 1722-10-08 | ...Church, has not been counted in the Eye of the World a Churchman; and he who is very zealous... | |
| 6 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Printer to the Reader, 11 February 1723 | 1723-02-11 | ...the pleasure of Construing. We should have obliged the World with a Greek scrap or two, but... | |
| 7 | Franklin, Benjamin | On Titles of Honor, 18 February 1723 | 1723-02-18 | ...Opinion, and there are not two Men in the World whose Sentiments are alike in every thing.... | |
| 8 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, 1725 | ≈1725-01-01 | ...Manner as this, That in creating and governing the World, as he was infinitely wise, he knew... | |
| 9 | Franklin, Benjamin | Journal of a Voyage, 1726 | ≈1726-07-22 | ..., I have methinks one of the pleasantest scenes in the world before me. ’Tis a fine clear day,... | |
| 10 | Franklin, Benjamin | Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion, 20 November … | 1728-11-20 | In Honour to the World’s Great Author rise. | |
| 11 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 1, 4 February 1729 | 1729-02-04 | ...Vehicle in which my Remonstrances shall be convey’d to the World....no Country in the World... | |
| 12 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 2, 11 February 1729 | 1729-02-11 | ...own Merit himself, or discovering it to the World, rather than venture to expose himself... | |
| 13 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 3, 18 February 1729 | 1729-02-18 | ...be a Master of all the Arts and Sciences in the World beside. | |
| 14 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 4, 25 February 1729 | 1729-02-25 | ...Friend. Now I cannot do the least Thing in the World, but she must know all about it; and... | |
| 15 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 5, 4 March 1729 | 1729-03-04 | And that all the World may judge with how much Humanity as well as Justice......in the World: By... | |
| 16 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 | 1729-03-27 | ...Hearing his Works applauded. The hiding from the World our Names while we publish our Thoughts... | |
| 17 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency, 3 April … | 1729-04-03 | For many Ages, those Parts of the World which are engaged in Commerce, have fixed upon Gold... | |
| 18 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1729 | ≈1729-10-02 | ...and Sam. Keimer send out their Advertisements, and tell the World, That | |
| 19 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Printer to the Reader, 2 October 1729 | 1729-10-02 | ...’d are very rare in this remote Part of the World; and it would be well if the Writer... | |
| 20 | Franklin, Benjamin | Affairs of Ireland, 20 November 1729 | 1729-11-20 | ...Voyages, or to come to these Parts of the World; and being besides but meanly provided, many... | |
| 21 | Franklin, Benjamin | Printer’s Errors, 13 March 1730 | 1730-03-13 | ..., shall meet with much better Quarter from the World when he happens to fall into a... | |
| 22 | Franklin, Benjamin | Doctrine to be Preached, 1731 | ≈1731-01-01 | ...together to strengthen the Interest of Virtue, in the World: and so strengthen themselves in... | |
| 23 | Franklin, Benjamin | Observations on Reading History, 9 May 1731 | 1731-05-09 | That the great Affairs of the World, the Wars, Revolutions, &c. are carried on... | |
| 24 | Franklin, Benjamin | Apology for Printers, 10 June 1731 | 1731-06-10 | ...thereby be put to Free Writing, and the World would afterwards have nothing to read but what... | |
| 25 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 19 June 1731 | 1731-06-19 | ...long and that she has passed through the world happily, having never had any extraordinary... |
| 26 | Franklin, Benjamin | On the Providence of God in the Government of the … | ≈1732-01-01 | ...: the Providence of God in the Government of the World. I shall not attempt to amuse you... | |
| 27 | Report of a Committee on By-Laws for St. John’s Lodge … | 1732-06-05 | allow’d to make that Complaint publick to the World: the Offender against this Rule to be expell’d. | ||
| 28 | Franklin, Benjamin | Anti-Casuist: A Case of Conscience, [3 July 1732] | 1732-07-03 | ...a Practice would bring nothing but Confusion in the World; and that the Person injuring is a... | |
| 29 | Franklin, Benjamin | Celia Single, 24 July 1732 | 1732-07-24 | ...always dreaming over the Chequer-board, and cares not how the World goes,...the World goes... | |
| 30 | Franklin, Benjamin | Alice Addertongue, 12 September 1732 | 1732-09-12 | when I observe and consider that the World is not so bad as People out of humour imagine...the World | |
| 31 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1733 | ≈1733-01-01 | If true (quoth Will) the World no such affords.Death is a Fisherman, the world we see | |
| 32 | Franklin, Benjamin | Half-Hour’s Conversation with a Friend, 16 November … | 1733-11-16 | ...publick Manner make such Acknowledgments as all the World shall say are just. Nor have I... | |
| 33 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1734 | ≈1734-01-01 | ...made my Circumstances much more easy in the World, and requires my grateful Acknowledgment.... | |
| 34 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1734 | ≈1734-01-08 | ...’s Britannia. Raleigh’s History of the World. Builders Vademecum. Trader’s Vademecum.... | |
| 35 | Read, Sarah | Franklin, Benjamin | Sarah Read to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: Release … | 1734-04-10 | ...her better Preferment and Advancement in the World and also in Consideration of Five... |
| 36 | Franklin, Benjamin | Reply to a Piece of Advice, 4 March 1735 | 1735-03-04 | ...if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he... | |
| 37 | Franklin, Benjamin | Observations on the Proceedings against Mr. Hemphill … | 1735-07-17 | have been cast upon it, and to convince the World how unjustly some Men will act, when they have... | |
| 38 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Letter to a Friend in the Country, [25 September … | 1735-09-25 | ...the Interests of Truth and Liberty in the World; and surely, none but Slaves and... | |
| 39 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Defense of Mr. Hemphill’s Observations, [30 October … | 1735-10-30 | ...I had reason to believe this Part of the World was troubled with Impertinence enough already,... | |
| 40 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1736 | ≈1736-01-01 | ...they may say to the contrary: And the World may be satisfied likewise; for if there... | |
| 41 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1737 | ≈1737-01-01 | ...will be an acceptable Service to these Parts of the World, if I make it more publick by the... | |
| 42 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1737 | ≈1737-01-06 | OF THE World——to drink of | |
| 43 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1738 | ≈1738-01-01 | ...such kind of stuff; and now, forsooth! all the World must know, that Poor Dick’s Wife has... | |
| 44 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1738 | ≈1738-01-03 | We have the Pleasure of acquainting the World, that the famous Chinese or Tartarian Plant, called | |
| 45 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 | ≈1739-01-04 | ...about Religion, it seem’d as if all the World were growing Religious; so that one could... | |
| 46 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1740 | ≈1740-01-01 | ...could no longer be conceal’d from the World, they confess his Death in their Almanack...the World | |
| 47 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1740 | ≈1740-01-03 | ...Creature to all Persons in these Parts of the World; and it is in Scripture the very same... | |
| 48 | Franklin, Benjamin | Statement of Editorial Policy, 24 July 1740 | 1740-07-24 | ...to be published, much more justly might the World complain. ’Tis true, where Invectives are... | |
| 49 | Webbe, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Webbe: The Detection, 17 November 1740 | 1740-11-17 | ...been relieved from such a Contract, in any Country in the World, by a universal Maxim in Equity. |
| 50 | Webbe, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Webbe: The Postmaster and the Mercury, 18 December … | 1740-12-18 | ...as I am apt to imagine, to convince the World of his great Address in Argument, undertook to... |