Royal Gazette: “Our Last Will and Testament”
IN the NAME of DEVIL AMEN. WE the Congress of America in Congress assembled, being weak in body, low in credit, and poor in estate, but rich, high, and strong, […]
The Embargo and the Farmer’s Story
A zealous Boston Democrat was lately in the country extolling the embargo to a plain farmer, as a wise as well as a strong measure, and urging the farmer to […]
Truisms
1. All men are born equal, and entitled to protection, excepting those whose skins are black and hair woolly; or, to prevent mistake, excepting Africans, and their descendants. 2. If […]
An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz. The Court of the Press
POWER OF THIS COURT It may receive and promulgate accusations of all kinds against all persons and characters among the citizens of the state, and even against all inferior courts, […]
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to a Royal Academy About Farting (1781)
Franklin, Benjamin. “To the Royal Academy Of ***.” In The Bagatelles from Passy (The Eakins Press, New York, 1967 reprint). https://archive.org/details/bagatellesfrompa0000benj/page/n7/mode/1up GENTLEMEN, I have perused your late mathematical Prize Question, […]
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker
The SPEECH of Miss Polly Baker, before a Court of Judicature, at Connecticut in New England, where she was prosecuted the fifth Time for having a Bastard Child; which influenced […]
Old Mistresses Apologue
My dear Friend, I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. […]
On Censure or Backbiting
Impia sub dulci melle venena latent. Ovid Naturam expellas furca licet, usq; recurret. Hor. There is scarce any one Thing so generally spoke against, and at the same time so […]