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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 8
Volume 8: April 1, 1758 through December 31, 1759
In this volume Franklin is representing the Pennsylvania Assembly in London, meeting with limited success before the Privy Council over the question of the Proprietor's alleged fraud in Indian lands and with complete reversal...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 9
Volume 9: January 1, 1760 through December 31, 1761
Early in the period covered by this volume Franklin wrote the "Canada Pamphlet," one of his earliest and most important efforts to influence British public opinion. In it he urged that in peace negotiations with France, Great...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 10
Volume 10: January 1, 1762 through December 31, 1763
In the summer of 1762 Franklin wound up his business in England as agent for the Pennsylvania Assembly and returned to Philadelphia. William Franklin was married in London and soon followed his father to take office as...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 11
Volume 11: January 1, 1764 through December 31, 1764
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 12
Volume 12: January 1, 1765 through December 31, 1765
Momentous public affairs mingle with family concerns to give a varied interest to Franklin's papers for 1765. During the first part of the year he was busy trying to get modifications of existing British revenue laws...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 14
Volume 14: January 1, 1767 through December 31, 1767
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 15
Volume 15: January 1, 1768, through December 31 1768
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian
In 1505 and 1506, More and Erasmus found a world of profit and delight in turning some of Lucian of Samosata’s writing into Latin. More translated the Cynicus, Minippus, Philopseudes, and Tyrannicida, and...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 16
Volume 16: January 1, 1769, through December 31, 1769
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 10
Political Writings
Given Johnson’s intense concern throughout his life with problems of human morality, it is not surprising, in an age when such writers as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Goldsmith, and Burke were highly politically conscious, to...