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MEMOIRS
OF
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN;
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

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.


IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II

 

 

 


NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1860.


Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

 

ESSAYS.

 Page
The Way to Wealth; as clearly shown in the practice of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, "Poor Richard Improved"5
On True Happiness14
Public Men16
The Waste of Life22
Self-denial not the Essence of Virtue25
On the Usefulness of the Mathematics27
The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams31
Advice to a young Tradesman37
Rules of Health39
The Ephemera; an Emblem of Human Life. To Madame Brillon, of Passy40
The Whistle. To Madame Brillon42
On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry45
On Truth and
...

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