1Commission to James Parker as Comptroller of the Post Office, 22 April 1757 (Franklin Papers)
...unto him, the same Salary, Allowance, and Emoluments, as hath been heretofore allowed to, and...
2Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs, 12 April 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...receiv’d the Quit-rents, and had the Emoluments of Government; whence it was, that in...
3Franklin’s Remarks on Judge Foster’s Argument in Favor of the Right of Impressing Seamen, [before 17 September 1781] (Franklin Papers)
Places, or the Emoluments expected, are sufficient Inducements. The Business then is to...
4“F.B.”: Second Reply to Tom Hint, [23 December 1765] (Franklin Papers)
emoluments to themselves.
5The Formation of the Grand Ohio Company, [June? 1769] (Franklin Papers)
...which it is apprehended will be of great Emolument to Government in point of Revenue and to...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 2 September 1769 (Franklin Papers)
..., Salaries, Perquisites, Contracts and other Emoluments for the Benefit of People she...
7The Cravenstreet Gazette, 22–26 September 1770 (Franklin Papers)
..., as is usually supposed of all Ministers, shared the Emoluments among them.
8From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
...mere Time-servers, seeking their own private Emolument thro’ any Quantity of Publick Mischief;...
...Characters in the Country, whose Salaries and Emoluments are to arise out of the Duties...
10On a Proposed Act to Prevent Emigration, [December? 1773] (Franklin Papers)
for the Emolument of One? While the Increase
11From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Tucker, 26 February 1774 (Franklin Papers)
..., he thought Strangers should not have the Emoluments. Mr. Wheatly therefore wished us to...
12An Open Letter to Lord North, 5 April 1774 (Franklin Papers)
...cruel Task-Master for the Proprietor’s Emolument. Let all the Colonists be enrolled in...
13Revisions of the Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights, [between 29 July 1776 and 15 August 1776] (Franklin Papers)
...version reads: “and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family,...
14The American Commissioners: Memorandum for the Dutch, [before 31 March 1778] (Franklin Papers)
...with thus restraining the Americans for her own emolument, in the mode of acquiring money, she...
15Comparison of Great Britain and America as to Credit, in 1777, [before 8 September 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...greater. In England Salaries of Officers and Emoluments of Office are enormous. A King...
16From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price, 9 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...not so much to secure Religion itself, as the Emoluments of it.— When a Religion is good,...
17To Benjamin Franklin from Herman Heyman’s Sons, with Franklin’s Note for a Reply, 17 February 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...us and our City all such benefices or Emoluments, which are granted to other powers; may...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, 17 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
& enormous Salaries & Emoluments of Office. ...as these great Emoluments subsist, your...
19From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Laurens, 20 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...themselves by securing Safety with a Chance of Emolument & Plunder. They fancied the King’s...
20From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Laurens, 12 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
enormous Salaries, Emoluments, & Patronage
21From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 16 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...Parliaments, as in the enormous Salaries, Emoluments, and Patronage of your Great Offices;...
22From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price, 16 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
..., & its Diseases, I imagine the enormous Emoluments of Place to be among the greatest,...
23From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...Cent, for their Money, by their Fees and Emoluments, while the legal Interest is Five; so that...
24The Levée, [before 6 November 1784] (Franklin Papers)
...personal power. So that, through the hopes of emolument in one part of his subjects, and the...