The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3] · Benjamin Franklin
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_Badoin_, Mr. letters from, i. 314, 324. _Ballads_, two, written by Franklin in his youth, i. 16. _Balls_ of fire in the air, remark concerning, ii. 337. _Barometer_, how acted on by air, ii. 92. _Barrels_ for gunpowder, new sort proposed, i. 376. _Bass_, unnecessary in some tunes, ii. 343. _Bathing_ relieves thirst, ii. 104. observations on, 211. _Battery_, electrical, its construction, i. 193. _Baxter_, Mr. observations on his enquiry into the nature of the soul, ii. 110. _Beccaria_, character of his book on electricity, i. 310. _Beer_, not conducive to bodily strength, i. 62. _Bells_, form in consecrating them at Paris, i. 384. _Belly-ache_, dry, lead a cause of, ii. 220. _Bermuda_, little thunder there, i. 216. _Bermudian_ sloops, advantages of their construction, ii. 173. _Bernoulli_, Mr. his plan for moving boats, ii. 179. _Bevis_, Dr. draws electricity from the clouds, i. 429. _Bible_, anecdote of its concealment in the reign of Mary, i. 7. travestied by Dr. Brown, 31. _Bills_ of mortality, reasonings, formed on those for capital cities, not applicable to the country, ii. 383. _Birth_, noble, no qualification in America, iii. 400. _Bishops_, none in America, and why, ii. 456, 458. _Black clothes_ heat more and dry sooner than white, ii. 108. not fit for hot climates, 109. _Blacksmith_, trade of, hereditary in Franklin's family, i. 4.
_Blindness_ occasioned both by lightning and electricity, i. 228. _Boats_, difference of their sailing in shoal and deep water, ii. 160. management of, best understood by savages, 176. how rowed by the Chinese, 177. methods of moving them by machinery, _ibid._ improvement of Mr. Bernoulli's plan for moving them, 179. proposal for a new mode of moving them, _ibid._ double, advantage of, 173, 174. one built by Sir W. Petty, _ibid._ _Bodies_, electrified negatively, repel each other, ii. 294. effect of blunt, compared with pointed ones, i. 172, 223. _Body_, human, specifically lighter than water, ii. 208. political and human, compared, iii. 115. _Boerhaave_, his opinion of the propagation of heat, ii. 58. of steam from fermenting liquors, 59. _Boiling_ water, experiments with, i. 332, 344, 345. pot, bottom of, why cold, 387. _Bolton_, Mr. experiment by, i. 346. _Books_ read by Franklin in his youth, i. 15, 18, 20, 21. _Boston_, the birth-place of Franklin, i. 8. why quitted by him in his youth, 27, its inhabitants decrease, ii. 210. preface to proceedings of the town meeting of, iii. 317. _Boyle's_ lectures, effect of, on Franklin, i. 79. _Braddock_, general, defeat of, i. 131. _Bradford_, printer at Philadelphia, i. 34, 102. _Brass_, hot, yields unwholesome steams, ii. 249 _Brientnal_, Joseph, a member of the Junto club, i. 83. _Brimstone_, when fluid, will conduct electricity, i. 256.
_Bristol waters_, an alledged fact concerning, ii. 95. _Britain_, incapacity of, to supply the colonies with manufactures, ii. 386. _British empire_, an union of several states, iii. 310. _Brown_, Dr. acquaintance of Franklin's, i. 30. travestied the bible, 31. _Bubbles_ on the surface of water, hypothesis respecting, ii. 48. _Buchan_, earl of, letter to, on the price of land for new settlements in America, iii. 409. _Buildings_, what kind safest from lightning, i. 379. _Bullion_, causes of its variation in price, iii. 153. _Bunyan's_ Voyages, a book early read by Franklin, i. 15, 28. _Bur_, cause of, round a hole struck through pasteboard, i. 280. _Burnet_, governor, his attention to Franklin in his youth, i. 44. _Busy-body_, essays under the title of, i. 86. iii. 422.
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