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  La cause de tous les relâchemens vient de l''impunité des crimes, et non de la modération des peines


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id: 36338
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful After some time a merchant, an ingenious, sensible man, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, frequented our My father received the governor''s letter with some surprise, but said setting a youth up in business who wanted three years to arrive at man''s printing-house in Bartholomew Close, where I continued near a year. and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great scriveners; a good-natured, friendly, middle-aged man, a great lover of occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages Having been some time employed by the postmaster-general of America as Governor Hamilton having received this order, acquainted the house Besides these great principles, Franklin''s letters on electricity

title:
  Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader


id: 40236
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  draw in a good deal of fresh air, and, by letting them fall, force it the mean time, we should draw all the good we can from this world. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making greatest comforts of life to old people, I think their friends should Great Britain; this will soften a little, and, at the same time, appear generally well written and likely to do good: though the reading time of the degree of heat of boiling water increases the spring of the air Air moderately heated will support a greater quantity of water invisibly Seas, lakes, and great bodies of water, agitated by the winds, rises, as it will a little way, into air with water, there is instantly by means of a contact with other bodies, as air, water, or metals, the

title:
  Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader


id: 48138
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, government, in order to give the people a share in this new general number of members to be chosen for each colony shall from time to secure our present frontiers, serve to defend new colonies settled each colony remain in their present state, the general constitution laid on the colonies by act of parliament, and paid by the people the colonies pay yearly great sums to the mother-country new colonies in North America in general, leaving the precise said royal grant, proprietary charter, and law of their colony, A hardy assertion, concerning the paper-money act passed by governor of Britain, by the increase of people in her colonies, the number governments; and their people having naturally great respect for government of Great Britain and the people of America. _Colonial_ governments in America of three kinds, iii.

title:
  The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3]


id: 48136
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  power of points in repelling bodies charged with electricity, and in Besides these great principles, Franklin''s letters on electricity matter, each having its own natural quantity of the electrical fluid. and it will receive from the wire a quantity of the electrical fluid; Relation between Metals and Water.--Effects of Air in electrical Relation between Metals and Water.--Effects of Air in electrical _Query_, What are the effects of air in electrical experiments? the electric glass globe, through the prime conductor: when charged, were charged from the glass globe, the electric fluid streaming from the quantity of electric fluid, on the positive side of the glass, is _Beccaria''s Work on Electricity.--Sentiments of Franklin on pointed _Beccaria''s Work on Electricity.--Sentiments of Franklin on pointed Electricity.--Good Effect of a Rod on the House of Mr. West, of Electricity.--Good Effect of a Rod on the House of Mr. West, of _Experiments_, to show the electrical effect of points, i.

title:
  The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 [of 3]


id: 43855
title: Franklin''s Way to Wealth; or, "Poor Richard Improved"
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  publishing the Almanacks called "Poor Richard," introduces Father the wise is enough," as Poor Richard says.'' They joined in desiring him of," as Poor Richard says.--How much more than is necessary do we spend that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. wise," as Poor Richard says. leisure?" I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, "Employ will sink a great ship," as Poor Richard says; and again, "Who dainties the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says. putting in, soon comes to the bottom," as Poor Richard says; and then, a borrowing, goes a sorrowing," as Poor Richard says; and, indeed, so It is, however, a folly soon punished: for, as Poor Richard says, is lying, the first is running in debt," as Poor Richard says; and learn in no other," as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that; for it your knuckles," as Poor Richard says.''


id: 43809
title: Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  The documents which I publish are copies of Franklin''s letters, made on thin paper in a copying press (probably the rotary machine invented of the letters appear in Sparks'' edition of Franklin''s Works, and that he printed one letter from my copy, and he noted how the other paragraphs, capital letters or the old spelling,[2] Smyth follows the after the Fireworks we had a Balloon of about 5 feet Diameter filled This Method of filling the Balloon with hot Air is cheap and This Balloon of only 26 feet diameter being filled with Air ten times Charles & Robert''s Experiment, which was to have been made at this Day, the other press-copies and the letters as printed by Bigelow and Smyth "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every


id: 45515
title: Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  1. The non-electric contain''d in the bottle differs when electrised from a Thus, place an electrised bottle on clean glass or dry wax, and you a non-electric, and touch the wire, you will get it out in a short time; Place an electrised phial on wax; a small cork-ball suspended by a dry If the bottle had an electrical atmosphere, as well as the wire, an the GLASS ITSELF; the non-electrics in contact with the two surfaces, If now the wire of a bottle electrified in the common way, be brought near shews that bodies having less than the common quantity of Electricity, the wire of the bottle; place your knuckle on the glass stand, at just the That this electrical fluid or fire is strongly attracted by glass, we the air never draws off an electric atmosphere from any body, but in


