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Biblical References

Literary and Philosophical References

  • Cotton Mather, The Wonderful Work of Christ in America ()
  • John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress ()
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    Franklins autobiography allusion literary Benjamin Franklin's autobiography : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism. Part Four [ edit ]. Franklin studies languages, reconciles with his brother James, and loses a four-year-old son to smallpox. In , Franklin first publishes his Poor Richard's Almanack , which becomes very successful.

    Burton (Nathaniel Crouch), Historical Collections ()

  • Plutarch, Parallel Lives ()
  • Daniel Defoe, Essay on Projects ()
  • Cotton Mather, Bonifacius: An Essay upon the Good ()
  • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator ()
  • Thomas Tryon
  • Edward Cocker, Arithmetic ()
  • John Seller ()
  • Samuel Sturmy ()
  • John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ()
  • Pierre Nicole of Port Royal, Logic: Or the Art of Thinking ()
  • James Greenwood ()
  • Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury ()
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism ()
  • Wentworth Dillon, Essay on Translated Verse ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood ()
  • Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Religious Courtship, The Family Instructor ()
  • Samuel Richardson, Pamela ()
  • Charles Cotton ()
  • William Wollaston, Religion of Nature ()
  • William Lyons, The Infallibility, Dignity, and Excellence of Human Judgment ()
  • Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees ()
  • Edward Young ()
  • Melchis&#;deck de Thevenot ()
  • John Dryden ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency ()
  • Tacitus ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion ()
  • Pythagoras (43)
  • Addison, Cato, a Tragedy ()
  • Cicero, Tusculan Disputations ()
  • James Thomson ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac ()
  • George Whitefield ()
  • Thomas Hopkinson ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Plain Truth; or, Serious Considerations on the Present State of the City of Philadelphia, and Province of Pennsylvania ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Papers ()
  • Dryden's translation of Juvenal's Tenth Satire ()
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote ()
  • David Hume ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Dialogue between X, Y, and Z ()
  • Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity ()
  • Dr.

    Archibald Spencer ()

  • Peter Collinson ()
  • Edward Cave ()
  • Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Burron ()
  • Thomas Dalibard ()
  • Jean Nollet ()
  • Jean Baptiste Le Roy ()
  • Edward Wright ()
  • William Watson ()
  • George Parker, Earl of Macclesfield ()
  • Richard Jackson, An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania ()

Historical References

  • Queen Mary of England ()
  • King Charles II of England ()
  • Sir William Keith ()
  • William Burnet ()
  • Andrew Hamilton ()
  • James Hamilton ()
  • Robert Wilkes ()
  • Dr.

    Henry Pemberton ()

  • Sir Isaac Newton ()
  • Sir Hans Sloane ()
  • Sir William Wyndham ()
  • Patrick Gordon ()
  • Robert Boyle ()
  • The American Revolution ()
  • Gaius Julius Caesar ()
  • King Christian VI of Denmark ()
  • James Foster ()
  • Alexander Spotswood ()
  • George Whitefield ()
  • Sir William Penn ()
  • George Thomas ()
  • Archibald Spencer ()
  • John Fothergill ()
  • Archibald Kennedy ()
  • William Shirley ()
  • Robert Morris ()
  • William Denny ()
  • The French and Indian War ( and following)
  • Edward Braddock ()
  • Thomas Dunbar ()
  • Thomas Penn ()
  • Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ()
  • John Campbell, earl of Loudon ()
  • Sir William Pitt ()
  • Jeffrey Amherst ()
  • James Wolfe ()
  • John Carteret, earl of Granville ()
  • John Ferdinand Paris ()
  • Charles Calvert, Baron Baltimore ()
  • William Murray, earl of Mansfield ()