Benjamin Franklin, Author at The History Carper

Queries

August 18, 1768June 26, 2024Benjamin Franklin2. 1768 - 1769, Benjamin Franklin, London Chronicle, Revolutionary America, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

For the London Chronicle. QUERIES recommended to the Consideration of those Gentlemen who are for vigorous Measures with the AMERICANS. 1. Have the Colonists refused to answer any reasonable requisitions made to their Assemblies by the Mother Country? 2. If they have not refused to grant reasonable aids in the way, which they think consistent…

The Usefulness of an Odd Half of a Pair of Scissars

August 9, 1768June 26, 2024Benjamin Franklin5. Letters, Benjamin Franklin, Letters, Revolutionary America, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

To John Alleyne Dear Sir, You made an Apology to me for not acquainting me sooner with your Marriage. I ought now to make an Apology to you for delaying so long the Answer to your Letter. It was mislaid or hid among my Papers, and much Business put it out of my Mind, or…

Cold Air Baths

July 28, 1768June 26, 2024Benjamin Franklin5. Letters, Benjamin Franklin, Letters, Revolutionary America, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

To Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg London, July 28, 1768. I greatly approve the epithet, which you give in your letter of the 8th of June, to the new method of treating the small-pox, which you call the tonic or bracing method. I will take occasion from it, to mention a practice to which I have accustomed myself.…

Phonetic Alphabet

June 1, 1768June 26, 2024Benjamin Franklin2. 1768 - 1769, Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary America, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

REMARKS o It is endeavoured to give the Alphabet a more natural to Order, beginning first with the simple Sounds form’d huh by the Breath, with none or very little Help of Tongue, Teeth and Lips, and produc’d chiefly in the Windpipe. ish * Then coming forward to those form’d by the gi ing *…

Canal Depths and Ship Movement

May 10, 1768June 26, 2024Benjamin Franklin5. Letters, Benjamin Franklin, Letters, Revolutionary America, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

To John Pringle SIR, Craven-street, May 10, 1768. You may remember that when we were travelling together in Holland, you remarked that the track-schuyt in one of the stages went slower than usual, and enquired of the boatman, what might be the reason; who answered, that it had been a dry season, and the water…