Boston and London, 1722-1726
dc.contributor | Library, of America |
dc.contributor.author | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:49:18Z |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:49:18Z |
dc.date.created | 1722-1726 |
dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
dc.identifier | ota:1575 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1575 |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
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dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Letters -- United States -- 18th century |
dc.title | Boston and London, 1722-1726 |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
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identifier.ee | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/frankbenja001626 |
identifier.ee | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/frankbenja001626 |
identifier.lccn | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402 |
identifier.lccn | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402 |
otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<Text id=FraBost> <Author>Franklin, Benjamin</Author> <Title>Boston and London, 1722-1726</Title> <Edition>[Selections. 1987] Writings. Library of America. J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1987</Edition> <Date>1722-1726</Date> <body> <div0> <loc><locdoc>FraBost5</locdoc> <milestone n=5> <p><i>Silence Dogood, No. 1</i> <p><i>To the Author of the</i> New-England Courant. <p><i>Sir,</i> <p>It may not be improper in the first Place to inform your Readers, that I intend once a Fortnight to present them, by the Help of this Paper, with a short Epistle, which I presume will add somewhat to their Entertainment. <p>And since it is observed, that the Generality of People, now a days, are unwilling either to commend or dispraise what they read, until they are in some measure informed who or what the Author of it is, whether he be <i>poor</i> or <i>rich</i>, <i>old</i> or <i>young</i>, a <i>Schollar</i> or a <i>Leather Apron Man</i>, &c. . . .