AMERICAN LITERATURE · FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME COMPILED AND EDITED BY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND NEW EDITION, WITH 303 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN ELEVEN VOLUMES VOL. III. NEW-YORK WILLIAM EVARTS BENJAMIN 917 COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY. COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY WILLIAM EVARTS BENJAMIN. (All rights reserved.) AIMBOTILIAO PRESS OF JENKINS & McCOWAN, NEW YORK. CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. PAGE 3 13 14 15 15 16 17 21 23 26 27 29 34 35 36 36 39 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout To George Whitefield, On Faith and Good Works To Joseph Priestley, With a Method of deciding Doubtful Matters To his Daughter, Mrs. Sarah Bache, On Hereditary Titles and Honors To Samuel Mather, With Biographical Anecdotes. To George Whatley, With Moral and Philosophical Reflections To Mrs. Jane Mecom, On Good and Bad Spelling To Thomas Paine, Dissuading him from publishing a Certain Work To Noah Webster, On New-Fangled Modes of Writing and Printing To Ezra Stiles, With a Statement of his Religious Creed |