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Benjamin Franklin — The Complete Works, In Philosophy, Politics, And Morals, Of The Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
The Complete Works, In Philosophy, Politics, And Morals, Of The Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Volume II
PAPERS ON SUBJECTS OF GENERAL POLITICS.
PAPERS ON
SUBJECTS OF GENERAL POLITICS
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PAPERS
ON
SUBJECTS OF GENERAL POLITICS
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Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, peopling of Countries, &c[77].
Remarks on some of the foregoing Observations, showing particularly the Effect which manners have on Population.
Plan, by Messieurs Franklin and Dalrymple, for benefitting distant unprovided Countries[82].
Concerning the Provision made in China against Famine.
Positions to be examined, concerning national Wealth[84].
Political Fragments, supposed either to be written by Dr. Franklin, or to contain Sentiments nearly allied to his own[85].
On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor[86].
On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry.
On Smuggling, and its various Species[90].
Observations on War[91].
Notes copied from Dr. Franklin's writing in pencil in the margin of Judge Foster's celebrated argument in favour of the Impressing of Seamen (published in the folio edition of his works)[92].
On the criminal Laws, and the Practice of Privateering.
A Parable against Persecution, in Imitation of Scripture Language[95].
A Letter concerning Persecution in former Ages, the Maintenance of the Clergy, American Bishops, and the State of Toleration in Old England and New England compared[97].
On the Slave Trade[101].
Account of the highest Court of Judicature in Pensylvania, viz. The Court of the Press[102].