THE

LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN;

CONTAINING

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WITH NOTES

AND

A CONTINUATION.

BY JARED SPARKS.

"His country's friend, but more of human kind."

BOSTON:

TAPPAN, WHITTEMORE, AND MASON.

1850.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, by HILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.