LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND FROM HIS PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE
AND OTHER WRITINGS,

"

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

VOL. III.

Plurimæ consentiunt gentes populi primarium fuisse virum."

CICERO DE SENECTUTE (Catonis), 2 61.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO.

1875.