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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
Literature of the Revolutionary Period.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Passages from his Autobiography.
Franklin's Discovery of the Positive and Negative States of Electricity
His Invention of the Lightning Rod
The Electrical Kite
That Lightning usually passes from Earth to the Clouds
A Theory of Light and Heat
The Way to Wealth.
Franklin before the House of Commons
Rules for reducing a Great Empire to a Small One
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life.
The Whistle
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 William Strahan, After the War had Begun
To his Daughter, Mrs. Sarah Bache, On Hereditary Titles and Honors
To Samuel Mather, With Biographical Anecdotes.
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To George Whatley, With Moral and Philosophical Reflections
To Mrs. Jane Mecom, On Good and Bad Spelling
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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
To David Hartley, Explaining the Origin of the Stamp Act
To Robert Morris, On the State of American Credit in Europe
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JONATHAN MAYHEW.
Woman's Trifling Needs.
The Death of Parson Caldwell's Wife
John Adams's Monarchical Ideas
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Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America
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A Song
To his Wife
RICHARD HENRY LEE.
The Colonies to the Mother Country
BENJAMIN CHURCH.
To the Heirs of the Pilgrims
JOHN ADAMS.
Characteristic Entries in his Diary
A Balanced Government
A Character of Franklin
To Nathan Webb, With a Strange Prediction
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To Timothy Pickering, With an Account of a Famous Document
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To John Quincy Adams, On his Election to the Presidency.
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SAMUEL PETERS.
The Frogs of Windham
Stories of Connecticut Towns.
Manners and Customs of Connecticut in the Last Century
To P. Mazzei, Upon the Political Condition of the Country
To Governor Sullivan, Concerning Presidential Tours.
To Madame La Comtesse de Tesse, in a Complimentary Vein
To Doctor Benjamin Rush, Upon the Christian Religion
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Giving Some Rules of Conduct
To John Adams, Taking a Cheerful View of Life.
To Doctor Vine Utley, Describing the Writer's Physical Condition
To John Adams, On Political Parties
To Timothy Pickering, On a Sermon by Doctor Channing
To John Adams, Recalling their Long Friendship
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
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"The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America"