Letter from Charles Inglis to the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (1776)
I have the Pleasure to assure you that all the Society’s Missionaries, without excepting one, in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, &, so far as I can learn, in the […]
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers
Mayhew’s sermon text, Romans 13:1-7, is printed below: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are […]
Albany Plan of Union
It is proposed that humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all […]
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Source: F. N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws . . . , 7 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), 1:519–26, available online at http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/thorpe-the-federal-and-state-constitutions-vol-i-united-states-alabama-district-of-columbia. For […]
Reasons Against Satirizing Religion
To ——– Dear Sir I have read your Manuscrit with some Attention. By the Arguments it contains against the Doctrine of a particular Providence, tho’ you allow a general Providence, […]
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson (1753)
Sir, I received your Favour of the 29th. August last and thank you for the kind and judicious remarks you have made on my little Piece. Whatever further occurs to […]
The Busy-Body, No. 1
Mr. Andrew Bradford, I design this to acquaint you, that I, who have long been one of your Courteous Readers, have lately entertain’d some Thoughts of setting up for an […]
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 […]