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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

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NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
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AND OTHER WRITINGS,

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

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

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1899.

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