LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

BAYERISCHE

STAATSBIBLIOTHEK

MUENCHEN

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.