Part 1 — NOTES
Reading edition
References are to Franklin's Writings, edited by A. H. Smyth, 10 vols., 1905-1907.
Transcriber's Notes:
5. Minor punctuation corrections have been made without comment and include missing or misplaced periods, opening or closing quotation marks and parentheses, apostrophes, hypens, etc., however no punctuation has been added, a specific example being on:
p. 281, In the speech of "Father Abraham", p. 281-288, added closing quote at end of speech to match opening quote at beginning, however intervening paragraphs are without quote punctuation in the original and have been retained so in this e-text.
6. Minor spacing corrections have been made as follows:
p. v, Contents, page numbers have been right justified in a column.
p. 13, "some how" to "somehow" (was once somehow or other)
p. 21 "De foe" to "Defoe" (Defoe in his Cruso)
p. 206, replaced blank space with double emdash, (are under ---- Years of Age)
p. 410, "TitlePage" to "Title Page" (Lines in the Title Page)
7. p. 3, In "Selections from BENJAMIN FRANKLIN", moved note about the "Notes" section from the bottom to the top of selection, above the header, as it pertains to ALL remaining pages.
8. SPELLING CORRECTIONS: (not otherwise marked by editor)
p. xxxix, "strengthned" to "strengthened" (14) (strengthened by long prescription)
p. ci, "transfererd" to "transferred" (1) (transferred from the Penn Charter) (in Footnote i-327)
*p. 9, "Wharf" to "Wharff" (My proposal was to build a Wharff)
p. 16, "Shaftsbury" to "Shaftesbury" (33) (reading Shaftesbury and Collins)
p. 67, "preceeding" to "preceding" (16) (a preceding Wife)
p. 184, "hear" to "here" (I have here described)
*p. 266, "harrassed" to "harassed" (past has harassed them)
*p. 369, "harrassed" to "harassed" (order them to be harassed)
p. 347, "exhilirates" to "exhilerates" (exhilerates me more)
p. 451, "Univers" to "Universe" (greatest in the Universe;)
*Correction made because word occurs correctly or alternately spelled elsewhere in the SAME document.
9. WORD VARIATIONS: (found to be valid spellings in W. E. D.)
"abovementioned" (1) and "above-mentioned" (1)
"abridgment" (15) and "abridgement" (2)
"agreable" (11) and "agreeable" (26)
"ale-house" (1) and "alehouse" (1)
"Algernon Sidney" (1) and "Algernoon Sidney" (1)
"allege" (7) and "alledge" (2)
"Almanac" (10) and "Almanack" (38)
"antient" (15) and "ancient" (50)
"apetite" (1) and "appetite" (7)
"arithmetic" (9) and "arithmetick" (5)
"balance" (13) and "ballance" (5)
"beforementioned" (1) and "before-mentioned" (1)
"bias" (4) and "biass" (2)
"Boulogne" (2) and "Bouloigne" (1)
"boundlessly" (1) and "boundlesly" (1)
"Brientnal" (3) (in Autobiography), "Breintnal" (1) (in Introduction)
and "Breintnall" (3) (in footnotes)
"Broussonet" (1) and "Broussonnet" (1)
"burden" (7) and "burthen" (12)
"Cabin" (5) and "Cabbin" (2)
"Caesar" (1) and "Cesar" (1)
"characteris'd" (1) and "characterized" (1)
"chearfulness" (1) and "cheerfulness" (1)
"Chelsea" (2) and "Chelsey" (1)
"Chesnut Street" (1) and "Chestnut Street" (1)
"chuse" (8) and "choose" (7)
"Classics" (2) and "Classicks" (1)
"Clothes" (4) and "Cloaths" (4)
"Coffee House" (2) and "Coffee-house" (2)
"compleat" (10) and "complete" (11)
"control" (3) and "controul" (4)
"courthouse" (1) and "court-house" (1)
"croud" (3) and "crowd" (12)
"Curiositee" (1) and "Curiosity" (8)
"Customhouse" (1) and "Custom-house" (1)
"d'Alibard" (2) and "Dalibared" (2)
"dependence" (5) and "dependance" (6)
"disagreable" (3) and "disagreeable" (5)
"drove" (3) and "drave" (1)
"Edinborough" (1) and "Edinburgh" (9)
"Eliptic" (1) and "Eliptick" (1)
"Encyclopædia" (4) and "Encyclopedia" (2)
"Encyclopædists" (2) and "Encyclopedists" (1)
"enlightened" (2) and "enlightned" (2)
"enter" (7) and "entre" (5)
"entitled" (8) and "entituled" (Old Fr. Sp.) (2)
"expel" (1) and "expell" (1)
"Expence" (22) and "Expense" (3)
"extreme" (21) and "extream" (26)
"Falsehood" (2) and "Falshood" (4)
"Favor" (1) and "Favour" (26)
"fixt" (3) and "fixed" (14)
"Folger" (1) and "Folgier" (1) (Peter ----)
"foretell" (1) and "fortel" (1)
"Free-will" (1) and "Free-Will" (1)
"froze" (2) and "Frose" (1)
"Good-Will" (1), "Good-will" (3), and "Goodwill" (1)
"Governor" (47) and "Governour" (1)
"Grub-Street" (1) and "Grub-street" (1)
"Hawksworth" (1) and "Hawkesworth" (4)
"hainous" (1) and "heinous" (1)
"height" (6), "heigth" (1), and "heighth" (1)
"hindered" (2) and "hindred" (1)
"home-spun" (1) and "homespun" (1)
"Humor" (1) and "Humour" (5)
"Ill-will" (2) and "Ill-Will" (1)
"Increase" (114) and "Encrease" (8)
"indiscrete" (1) and "indiscreet" (3)
"intolerable" (2) and "intollerable" (1)
"Jealousy" (3) and "Jealousie" (1)
"Job" (12) and "Jobb" (4) (as in work)
"Joli" (1) and "Joly" (3) (Moulin ----)
"Journey-man" (1),"Journeyman('s)" (3) and JourneyMen (1)
"Knicknacks" (1) and "Nicknack" (1)
"Labors" (1) and "Labours" (5)
"land-holder" (1) and "Land-holder" (1)
"Latinè" (1) and "Latine" (1)
"laught" (3) and "laughed" (3)
"Linnaeus" (1) and "Linnæus" (2) (a Naturalist)
"Livlihood" (4) and "Livelyhood" (1)
"Mama" (1) and "Mamma" (1)
"mankind" (35) and "man-kind" (1) (in quoted material)
"Mathmatics" (4) and "Mathmaticks" (1)
"Mechanic" (7) and "Mechanick" (4)
"melancholy" (4) and "melancholly" (2)
"Merchandise" (1) and "Merchandize" (2)
"middle-ag'd" (1) and "middle-aged" (1)
"music" (7) and "musick" (4)
*"natural" (193) and "naturall" (1) (in Bacon Quote)
"Negro" (3) and "Negroe" (11)
"Neighbor" (1) and "Neighbour" (11)
"News-Paper" (2) and "NewsPapers" (1)
"News-writers" (1) and "Newswriters" (1)
"nonsense" (5) and "nonsence" (1)
*"obtain" (28) and "obteyn" (1) (in Mather quote)
"Offence" (14) and "Offense" (2)
"Optics" (1) and "Opticks" (1)
"partial" (7) and "partiall" (1)
"Penny-worth" (1) and "Pennyworth(s)" (1)
"Pennsylvania" (159) and "Pensilvania" (15) and "Pensylvania" (1)
"persuaded" (16) and "perswaded" (2)
"Physic" (1) and "Physick" (2)
"Polly" (9) and "Polley" (1) (---- Stevenson)
"Portrait" (9) and "Pourtrait" (1)
"possest" (1) and "possessed" (10)
"printing-house" (2), "Printing-house" (2), "Printing-House" (7) and
"Printinghouse" (2)
"Priviledge" (1) and "Privilege" (3)
"Public" (22) and "Publick" (43)
*"Puffendorf" (3) and "Puffendorff" (1)
"rejoicing" (5) and "rejoycing" (1)
"rendered" (7) and "rendred" (1)
"rendering" (3) and "rendring" (1)
"Rhetoric" (6) and "Rhetorick" (1)
"rhime" (3) and "rhyme" (3)
"Rhode Island" (4) and "Rhodeisland" (3)
"Ribands" (1) and "Ribbands" (4)
"Rochefoucauld" (2), "Rochefoucault" (1) and "Larochefoucault" (1)
"role" (5) and rôle (2)
"rouse" (1) and "rouze" (1)
"satirize" (1) and "satyrize" (1)
"Scolar" (7) and "Scollar" (1)
"seacoasts" (1) and "sea-coasts" (1)
"Silinc" (1) and "Silence" (4) (---- Dogood)
"smoke" (3) and "smoak" (2)
"soured" (1) and "sowred" (1)
"staied" (2) and "stayed" (2)
"straight" (4) and "strait" (8)
"subtle" (1) and "subtile" (1)
"sunset" (1) and "sun-set" (1)
"surprise" (11) and "surprize" (16)
"Surveyor-General" (1) and "Surveyor General" (2)
"Susquehannah" (1), "Susquehanah" (1) and "Sasquehannah" (1)
"threatened" (5) and "threatned" (1)
"tiger" (1) and "tyger" (1)
"to-day" (6) (in text) and "today" (5)
"topic" (2) and "topick" (1)
"Une loge" (1) and "Un loge" (1)
"virtuous" (19) and "vertuous" (1)
"Watergruel" (1) and "Water-gruel" (1)
"wellmeaning (1) and "well-meaning" (1)
"wondered" (4) and "wondred" (1)
"Wool" (3) and "Wooll" (4)
(* found within directly quoted material)
10. Several instances of mixed case words appear in the text as follows: footPath, JourneyMen, mySelf, thySelf, etc., and have been retained.