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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

From a steel engraving by CHARLES NICOLAS COCHIN.

Made in Paris about the year 1732

PATRIOTS and STATESMEN

from WASHINGTON to LINCOLN

Revealed in the Letters,Addresses,State Papers
or other Writings of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WALTER
RALEGH, THOMAS PowNALL, JOHN SMITH, WILLIAM
PENN, PATRICK HENRY, JONATHAN EDWARDS, JOHN

Hancock and many others. Edited by
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Professor of the Science of Government

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