A dissertation on liberty and necessity, pleasure and pain

People / Organizations

• Benjamin Franklin (Author)

Imprint

London : [printed by Benjamin Franklin while working for Samuel Palmer], printed in the year MDCCXXV. [1725]

Publication year

1725

ESTC No.

T126964

Grub Street ID

176807

Description

32 p. ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By Benjamin Franklin

Written in answer to William Wollaston's "The religion of nature delineated," and dedicated to James Ralph; 100 copies printed; see Franklin's autobiography (the number of copies is noted in a draft, not in the printed edition; reproduced in the edition edited by Ormond Seavey, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 177). See also Hazel Wilkinson, "Benjamin Franklin's London printing 1725-26", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 139-180, at pp. 143-144.