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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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4651 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, 1725 | ≈1725-01-01 | A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. London: Printed in the Year MDCCXXV .... | |
4652 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sloane, Sir Hans | From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Hans Sloane, 2 June 1725 | 1725-06-02 | ALS : British Museum Having lately been in the Nothern Parts of America, I have brought from... |
4653 | Franklin, Benjamin | Promissory Note to John Phillips, 5 [?] May 1724 | 1724-05-05 | DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I Promise to Pay or Cause to be paid unto John Phillips... | |
4654 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Other Courant Essays Possibly by Franklin, 1723] | ≈1723-01-01 | Franklin’s contributions to the New-England Courant were not limited to the fourteen letters of... | |
4655 | Franklin, Benjamin | On Titles of Honor, 18 February 1723 | 1723-02-18 | Printed in The New-England Courant , February 18, 1723. Mero meridie si dixerit illi tenebras... | |
4656 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Printer to the Reader, 11 February 1723 | 1723-02-11 | Printed in The New-England Courant , February 11, 1723. Arrest and imprisonment had not... | |
4657 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Elegy on My Sister Franklin, 1722] | ≈1722-01-01 | Copy: University of Pennsylvania Library The University of Pennsylvania acquired in 1934 an... | |
4658 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 14, 8 October 1722 | 1722-10-08 | Printed in The New-England Courant , October 8, 1722. Earum causarum quantum quaeque valeat,... | |
4659 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 13, 24 September 1722 | 1722-09-24 | Printed in The New-England Courant , September 24, 1722. In Persons of a contemplative... | |
4660 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 12, 10 September 1722 | 1722-09-10 | Printed in The New-England Courant , September 10, 1722. Quod est in cordi sobrii, est in ore... | |
4661 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 11, 20 August 1722 | 1722-08-20 | Printed in The New-England Courant , August 20, 1722. Neque licitum interea est meam amicam... | |
4662 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 10, 13 August 1722 | 1722-08-13 | Printed in The New-England Courant , August 13, 1722. Optimè societas hominum servabitur. Cic.... | |
4663 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 9, 23 July 1722 | 1722-07-23 | Printed in The New-England Courant , July 23, 1722. Corruptio optimi est pessima. It has been for... | |
4664 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 8, 9 July 1722 | 1722-07-09 | Printed in The New-England Courant , July 9, 1722. On June 11 the Courant had insinuated that the... | |
4665 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 7, 25 June 1722 | 1722-06-25 | Printed in The New-England Courant , June 25, 1722. It has been the Complaint of many Ingenious... | |
4666 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 6, 11 June 1722 | 1722-06-11 | Printed in The New-England Courant , June 11, 1722. Quem Dies videt veniens Superbum, Hunc Dies... | |
4667 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 5, 28 May 1722 | 1722-05-28 | Printed in The New-England Courant , May 28, 1722. Mulier Mulieri magis congruet. Ter. I shall... | |
4668 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 4, 14 May 1722 | 1722-05-14 | Printed in The New-England Courant , May 14, 1722. An sum etiam nunc vel Graecè loqui vel Latinè... | |
4669 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 3, 30 April 1722 | 1722-04-30 | Printed in The New-England Courant , April 30, 1722. It is undoubtedly the Duty of all Persons to... | |
4670 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 2, 16 April 1722 | 1722-04-16 | Printed in The New-England Courant , April 16, 1722. Histories of Lives are seldom entertaining,... | |
4671 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722 | 1722-04-02 | Printed in The New-England Courant , April 2, 1722. The first issue of James Franklin’s... | |
4672 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Taking of Teach the Pirate, 1719 | ≈1719-01-01 | Not found The second ballad which Franklin wrote and hawked through the streets of Boston was “a... | |
4673 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Lighthouse Tragedy, 1718 | ≈1718-01-01 | Not found As a lad of twelve or thirteen Franklin “took a Fancy to Poetry, and made some little... | |
4674 | Franklin, Benjamin | Editorial Introduction | These letters illustrate the complexities—perhaps increased by the writer’s nature—of trying to... |