THE LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

Franklin

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND FROM HIS PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE

AND OTHER WRITINGS,

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

"Plurimæ consentiunt gentes populi primarium fuisse virum."
CICERO DE SENECTUTE (Catonis), 61

FOURTH Edition, revISED AND Corrected.

ILLUSTRATED.

VOL. I.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
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Copyright, 1893, by John Bigelow.
Copyright, 1898, by John Bigelow.
Copyright. 1902, by John Bigelow.

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