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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, L.L.D.
Publish'd April 1, 1806; by Longman, Rees, Hurst, & Orme, Paternoster Row.
The
WORKS
Of
Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D.
VOL. 1.
Printed,
for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Paternoster Row, London.
THE
COMPLETE
WORKS,
IN
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND MORALS,
OF THE LATE
DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND ARRANGED:
WITH
MEMOIRS OF HIS EARLY LIFE,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
London:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD;
AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
———
1806.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Theworks of Dr. Franklin have beenoften partially collected, never before broughttogether in one uniform publication.
The first collection was made by Mr. PeterCollinson in the year 1751. It consisted ofletters, communicated by the author to theeditor, on one subject, electricity, and formeda pamphlet only, of which the price was half-a-crown.It was enlarged in 1752, by asecond communication on the same subject,and in 1754, by a third, till, in 1766, by theaddition of letters and papers on other philosophicalsubjects, it amounted to a quartovolume of 500 pages.
Ten years after, in 1779, another collectionwas made, by a different editor, in onevolume, printed both in quarto and octavo, ofpapers not contained in the preceding collection,under the title of Political, Miscellaneous,and Philosophical Pieces.
In 1787, a third collection appeared in athin octavo volume, entitled Phil BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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