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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis · Public domain

82 chapters, about 70,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1 100 words
  2. PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS. 300 words
  3. COURTEOUS READER, 2,000 words
  4. ON TRUE HAPPINESS. 600 words
  5. PUBLIC MEN 1,300 words
  6. THE WASTE OF LIFE. 800 words
  7. SELF-DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE. 500 words
  8. ON THE USEFULNESS OF THE MATHEMATICS. 800 words
  9. THE ART OF PROCURING PLEASANT DREAMS. 1,200 words
  10. TO MY FRIEND A. B. 500 words
  11. TO MADAME BRILLON, OF PASSY. 500 words
  12. TO MADAME BRILLON. 500 words
  13. ON LUXURY, IDLENESS, AND INDUSTRY.[2] 1,200 words
  14. ON TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. 700 words
  15. NECESSARY HINTS TO THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH. 400 words
  16. THE HANDSOME AND DEFORMED LEG. 500 words
  17. ON HUMAN VANITY. 1,300 words
  18. ON SMUGGLING, AND ITS VARIOUS SPECIES. 1,000 words
  19. REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA. 1,400 words
  20. ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS. 3,700 words
  21. DEAR SIR, 2,200 words
  22. MY DEAR FRIEND 1,600 words
  23. MR. GAZETTEER, 1,000 words
  24. "HONOURED MOTHER, 500 words
  25. "DEAR SISTER, 200 words
  26. "DEAREST SISTER JENNY, 300 words
  27. "SIR, 400 words
  28. "MY DEAR CHILD, 400 words
  29. "MY DEAR CHILD, 200 words
  30. "DEAR SISTER, 400 words
  31. "DEAR SISTER, 200 words
  32. "DEAR SISTER, 600 words
  33. "MY DEAR LORD, 500 words
  34. "MY DEAR LORD, 2,000 words
  35. "MY DEAR FRIEND, 500 words
  36. "DEAR JACK, 700 words
  37. "DEAR SIR, 500 words
  38. "DEAR SIR, 400 words
  39. "REVEREND SIR, 200 words
  40. "DEAR SIR, 1,300 words
  41. "SIR, 600 words
  42. "SIR, 2,100 words
  43. "DEAR SIR, 300 words
  44. "DEAR SIR, 200 words
  45. "SIR, 300 words
  46. "DEAR SIR, 600 words
  47. "DEAR SIR, 200 words
  48. SIR, 900 words
  49. "DEAR FRIEND, 400 words
  50. "DEAR SIR, 300 words
  51. "DEAR SIR, 400 words
  52. "B. FRANKLIN." 500 words
  53. "REV. SIR, 500 words
  54. "DEAR FRIEND, 1,400 words
  55. "DEAR OLD FRIEND, 200 words
  56. "DEAR FRIEND, 700 words
  57. "MY DEAR FRIEND, 300 words
  58. "MY DEAR FRIEND, 400 words
  59. "DEAR SIR, 1,300 words
  60. "B. FRANKLIN." 200 words
  61. "SIR, 700 words
  62. "DEAR FRIEND, 400 words
  63. "MY VERY DEAR FRIEND, 200 words
  64. "DEAR SIR, 500 words
  65. PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS. 1,100 words
  66. B. FRANKLIN. 200 words
  67. ON THE DIFFERENT STRATA OF THE EARTH. 200 words
  68. B. FRANKLIN. 700 words
  69. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES. 4,500 words
  70. B. FRANKLIN. 1,200 words
  71. ELECTRICAL KITE. 400 words
  72. B. FRANKLIN. 5,900 words
  73. ON THE NORTHEAST STORMS IN NORTH AMERICA. 700 words
  74. ON COLD PRODUCED BY EVAPORATION. 2,300 words
  75. ON THE SALTNESS OF SEAWATER. 500 words
  76. B. FRANKLIN. 400 words
  77. MY DEAR FRIEND, 1,500 words
  78. B. FRANKLIN. 600 words
  79. B. FRANKLIN. 300 words
  80. ON THE ART OF SWIMMING. 1,300 words
  81. B. FRANKLIN. 300 words
  82. LORD BROUGHAM'S PORTRAIT OF DR. FRANKLIN. 1,100 words

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