Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · Franklin texts, 1726-1790 (1936 compilation)

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[Footnote 70: From Herodotus refracted through Rabelais? See C. E. Jorgenson's "Benjamin Franklin and Rabelais."]

[Footnote 71: For Franklin's activities in behalf of the repeal of the Stamp Act see especially _The Examination of Dr. B. F. Etc. in the British House of Commons, Relative to the Repeal of the American Stamp

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