• A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain is a philosophical pamphlet by Benjamin Franklin, published in London in 1725 in response to...
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    2017, at the Wayback Machine "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain." "Experiments and Observations on Electricity." (1751) "Fart Proudly:...
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  • religions, and religions discussed as if they were a theory of ethics making no special claim to divine status. A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure...
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    Retrieved September 12, 2013. Markel, Howard (February 28, 2011). "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Vaccines". The New York Times. Retrieved September 3,...
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  • A New Miscellany Laurence Echard – The History of the Revelation Benjamin Franklin – A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain Johann...
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    Books. Thus I past away the Time with a Mixture of Profit and Pleasure, having no Affliction but what was imaginary, and created in my own Fancy; as nothing...
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  • Samuel Palmer (printer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. On 15 February 1731 a printing-press was set up at St. James's House for the Duke of York and some of the...
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  • The Religion of Nature Delineated (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    pamphlet A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. He printed one hundred copies. But he quickly found it "so shallow and unconvincing...
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  • Common Sense A Defense of Abortion A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain A Few Words on Non-Intervention A Fórmula de Deus A fortiori...
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    History of street lighting in the United States (category History of science and technology in the United States)
    use. In the two and a half centuries before LED lighting emerged as the new "gold standard", cities and towns across America relied on oil, coal gas, carbon...
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    Albany Congress (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    "Lower Counties on the Delaware" were then administered by Pennsylvania, and Georgia Colony was slow to start.) The plan called for a single executive...
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    respective military force and efforts for the direct purpose of maintaining the "liberty, Sovereignty, and independence absolute and unlimited of the said...
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    secret and distributing them, and selling gunpowder to privateers chartered by the Congress. The committee also took over and administered on a uniform...
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    Benjamin Franklin Parkway (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Parkway was flooded with over a million visitors both weekend days, a Celebration of Families on Saturday, and a Holy Mass on Sunday.[citation needed] There...
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    The Academy and College of Philadelphia (1749–1791) was a boys' school and men's college in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania....
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    William Wollaston (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    the 1726 editions of the book and wrote the short pamphlet A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain in response. Later, however, he...
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  • Chen Menglei and Jiang Tingxi. First printed version of The Book of Abramelin; A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain by Benjamin Franklin;...
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    Richard Bache (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The BDA (1906))
    Bache was born on September 12, 1737, in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire, the youngest child of William Bache, a tax collector, and Mary (née Blechynden)...
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  • addendum in a Boston pamphlet on another subject. It was reissued ten times during the next 15 years. The essay examines population growth and its limits...
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    department of the United States —— (1725). A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain —— (1908). Bigelow, Frederick Southgate (ed.). Worldly...
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    Pennsylvania Abolition (or Abolitionist) Society, which had members and leaders of both races, became a model for anti-slavery organizations in other states during...
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    for those who love liberty gives general joy, and our cause is esteemed the cause of all mankind." Franklin, along with Silas Deane and Arthur Lee, began...
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    John Carter Brown Library (category Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata)
    four surviving copies of Benjamin Franklin's A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, one of two copies of the hand-illustrated Tovar...
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  • Ben Franklin in Paris is a work of musical theatre, with a book and lyrics by Sidney Michaels, and music by Mark Sandrich, Jr. with two songs contributed...
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    John Stuart Mill (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    "intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure". It is clear that we do not all value virtues as a path to...
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  • Library Company of Philadelphia (category Buildings and structures in Philadelphia)
    expatriate Philadelphian living in London, painted a large picture, "Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences." In 1792, the Loganian Library, which had...
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    Self-Revealed is a biography of Benjamin Franklin written by William Cabell Bruce in 1917. A "biographical and critical study based mostly on Benjamin Franklin's...
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  • Philadelphia, and recently released from a Tripolitan prison. From July to September she served as storeship for the Mediterranean Squadron and on the 24th...
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    Engineering, and Physics. The first Benjamin Franklin Medals were presented in 1998. Medalists are selected by a Committee on Science and the Arts (CS&A), composed...
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  • Les Neuf Sœurs was at its highest.[citation needed] In Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinisme (4 vol.,1797–1798) Abbé Barruel attributed membership...
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