Engraved by M. R. Hall, from the original picture in anol- pained from life by Sr. Duplassis in 1783, and now 118458) in the possession of "ohn Cracow Eng.

THE LIFE

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

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. I.

"Plurimæ consentiunt gentes populi primarium fuisse virum.”
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