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Portrait: Benjamin Franklin
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis · Public domain

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Politician, publisher, printer, political theorist · British America / United States · Boston – Philadelphia

Also known as: Silence Dogood, Poor Richard, Richard Saunders

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American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Essays

  • A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
  • An Edict by the King of Prussia
  • Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout
  • Information to those who would remove to America
  • Lo camí de la fortuna Translation
  • Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One

Poems

  • An Account of the higheſt Court of Judicature in Pennſylvania, viz. the Court of the Preſs
  • Den gamle Richards Kunst at blive rig og lykkelig tilligemed godt Raad til en ung Mand Translation
  • Neceſſary Hints to thoſe that would be rich
  • Paper: a Poem
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Section Five

Letters

  • A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks
  • An Address to the Public
  • Brave Men at Fires
  • Extract of a Letter concerning Electricity, from Mr. B. Franklin to Mons. Delibard
  • Franklin to Abbé Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie
  • Franklin to an Engraver in Paris
  • Franklin to Benjamin Webb
  • Franklin to David Hartley
  • Franklin to John Wright
  • Letter on a Manuscript against the Doctrine of a Particular Providence
  • Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery

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