1To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, [5 November 1782 or later?] (Franklin Papers)
...my dearest, dearest sir, by every tie in the world beseech you not to think of residing in...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin West, 7 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Citizens of the
WorldCitizens of the World
3To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Webb, 7 July 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...the pleasure to See you in this part of the World. Have you laid aside all thoughts of It?—...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 11 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
He is a citizen of the world in all senses, but most so in his philanthropy....
5To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 31 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...time for appearing upon the stage of the world. Our sensations being very much fixed to...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 23 February 1785 (Franklin Papers)
to suppose will not long remain concealed from all the world....family in the world I desire...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 1 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Observations Made during a Voyage Round the World
8To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, [before 7 December 1779] (Franklin Papers)
...to me a riddle, and conceived that the world might grow wiser by attempting to explain...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 25 February 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...make over my guests to the first man in the world. And I say that you are coming likewise,...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 8 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
...it. I was first, too honest in saying to the world “
11To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 9 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...a little about them, my dearest sir, for the world’s sake.— In what you will soon have...
12To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Webb, 15 April 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...almost to Desperation—I acquainted no one in the World with my Intention, but in the...
13To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Webb, 18 May 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...’tho, I am from Necessity begging of all the World—in my own Mind I esteem every Shilling...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 3 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...; and that there were no risque in proclaiming to the world here, how much I am in all things...
15To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 21 November 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...will soon find that I am the farthest in the world from being changed in this respect; but I...
16To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 27 January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...minister, I have no fear of proclaiming to the world how much I am your respectful, grateful...
17To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 17 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
“He embraces the world.” The verb can also mean “explains,” “understands...
18John Webbe: The Postmaster and the Mercury, 18 December 1740 (Franklin Papers)
...as I am apt to imagine, to convince the World of his great Address in Argument, undertook to...
19The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 6 February 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...under a Military government. But the Governor of the World sets Bounds to the Rage of Men,...
20John Webbe: The Detection, 17 November 1740 (Franklin Papers)
...been relieved from such a Contract, in any Country in the World, by a universal Maxim in Equity.
21The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American Commissioners, 6[–9] October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...of our enemies in other parts of the world. For this purpose, the marine committee...
22The University of St. Andrews: Degree of Doctor of Laws, 12 February 1759 (Franklin Papers)
...known, acquired so much Praise throughout the World as to deserve the greatest Honours...
23The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 12 March[–9 April 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...is so generally established in the rest of the World that the Prospect of an Asylum in...
24The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American Commissioners, 30 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
as any in the world, having neither Debt nor Taxes on her Back when...
25The Committee of Secret Correspondence to the American Commissioners, 21[–23] December 1776 (Franklin Papers)
...taken to unmask his Lordship, and evince to the World, that he did not possess Powers, which...
26The Continental Congress to Franklin, William Bollan, Edmund Burke, Charles Garth, Arthur Lee, Thomas Life, and Paul … (Franklin Papers)
..., ostensibly to the throne and actually to the world, of what the quarrel was about....
27The American Commissioners to [the Committee of Secret Correspondence], 28 April 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...income, to be paid him anywhere in the world and whether or not the negotiations succeeded...
28To Benjamin Franklin from Johann Reinhold Forster, 30 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...Copy of the Observations made during my late Voyage round the World,...Round the World,...
29To Benjamin Franklin from the Baronne de Bourdic, [1784] (Franklin Papers)
...have the intelligence from all the parts of the world to be able trulŷ to judge if this...
30To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Hopkinson, 6 September 1770 (Franklin Papers)
...open hearted, yet intirely unacquainted with the world and the Dispositions of those whome...