LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

THE LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND FROM HIS PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE

AND OTHER WRITINGS,

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

VOL. III.

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

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
LONDON: 16 SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND.

1884.

PUBLI