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AMERICAN LITERATURE ·
FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT
TO THE PRESENT TIME
COMPILED AND EDITED BY
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON
NEW EDITION, WITH 303 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN ELEVEN VOLUMES
VOL. III.
NEW-YORK
WILLIAM EVARTS BENJAMIN
917 5412 1x4 1.3
COPYRIGHT, 1888,
BY CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY.
COPYRIGHT, 1894,
BY WILLIAM EVARTS BENJAMIN.
(All rights reserved.)
AIMBOTILIAO
PRESS OF
JENKINS & McCOWAN,
NEW YORK.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
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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
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.
To George Whatley, With Moral and Philosophical Reflections
To Mrs. Jane Mecom, On Good and Bad Spelling
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