1From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 4 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...England, if such a Measure had been adopted when fryar Bacon’s brazen Head cried out ...Bacon...
2From Benjamin Franklin to the Royal Academy of Brussels, [after 19 May 1780] (Franklin Papers)
...short, this Invention, if compleated, would be, as Bacon expresses it, Francis Bacon,