Benjamin Franklin's Humor

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181 Index Adams, John, 7, 131, 137 Adams, Nabby, 2 Addison and Steele, style of, 2, 11, 13, 25, 45 Aesop’s fables, 3 Alice Addertongue, Franklin as, 41–44 Allestree, Richard, 14 almanacs, 47–63, 65–67, 76–84; Franklin’s competition, 16, 50– 51, 57, 66. See also Poor Richard’s Almanac American Almanac (Leeds), 50 American image, of Franklin, 1, 10 American Magazine, 60 American Museum periodical, 10, 162 American War of Independence: Franklin writing for support for, 127–30; propaganda using fictional Indian atrocities, 130–36 American Weekly Mercury, 27, 33, 40 anger, 6–7 Anne, Queen, 10 Anthony Afterwit, Franklin as, 2, 36–38 apologues, 3, 4, 8, 9, 26, 35, 90, 96, 123; on America going broke, 159–60; on American issues, after War, 147–51; as bagatelles, 122; chimney sweepers, 112; at end of life, 162, 163; during Federal Constitutional Convention (1787), 153–54 appearance, 120–21 Argand, Ami, 138 astrology, 2, 48, 50, 51, 59, 66 autobiography, 4–6 Bache, Benjamin Franklin (grandson), 96, 119, 159 Bache, Sally (daughter), 96, 121, 147–48 Bacon, Francis, 104, 147 bagatelles, 8, 119, 122, 123–27, 138 Bailey, Nathaniel, 22 Baker, Polly. See Polly Baker, Franklin as ballooning, 143–44 Balzac, Honoré de, 4 Barbadoes Gazette, 164 Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques, 122, 138 Baskerville, John, 87 Bernard, Francis, 104, 112 bicameralism, 154–55 Bickerstaff, Isaac, 51 Birkett, William, 60, 61 Blount, Thomas, 22 Boston: and drunkenness, 21; Franklin in (1722–1723), 11–25; Franklin in disgrace with, 101, 103, 113; Independent Chronicle, 130 Boston Tea Party (1774), 113 INDEX Index 182 Boudinot, Elias, 167 Bradford, Andrew, 27, 33, 50, 60 Brillon de Jouy, Anne-Louise, 122– 23 Brownrigg, William, 113 Bunyan, John, 25 Busy-Body, Franklin as, 28–31 Cadet de Vaux, Antoine, 138 Caelia Shortface, Franklin as, 2, 27 Celia Single, Franklin as, 38–40 Charles, J. A. C., 143 Chatham, Lord. See Pitt, William chimney sweepers, 112 Clark, George Rogers, 131 Clement XI, Pope, 7 Cockpit (hall in London), 5, 6, 7, 113 colonial laws, 106–12 Congress, Franklin’s petition for compensation, 7–8, 155–56, 167 Continental Congress election, 118, 119 Copley Medal, Royal Society, England, 66 “Couranteers,” 12, 14–15, 18, 23, 25 “Craven Street Gazette,” 93–95, 119, 125 Daily Advertiser (London), 90 Dashwood, Francis, Baron LeDespencer, 111 daylight savings, 2, 15, 138–43 debt, 83 Declaration of Independence, 4, 103 Defoe, Daniel, 13, 16, 25, 45, 159, 164 doggerel, 18, 50, 86 Dogood, Silence. See Silence Dogood, Franklin as Dryden, John, 62 “Edict by the King of Prussia” (Franklin), 106–12 Education of Youth in Pensilvania (Franklin), 65 electricity, 5, 62, 66 empire, how to lose, 104–6 Epistolae Ho-Elianae (Howell), 85 epitaph, 32 Essay on Projects (Defoe), 16 Essays to Do Good (Mather), 12 Essay to Do Good, An (Wadsworth), 21 famous sayings, 8, 159 Father Abraham, 3, 76–84. See also Poor Richard Saunders, Franklin as F. B., Franklin as, 90–92 Federal Constitutional Convention (1787), 4, 6–7, 153–54, 159 Federal Gazette, 155, 165 Ferté, Duchess de la, 7 Fielding, Henry, 4, 162 Foster, John, 32 Franklin, Deborah (wife), 96, 123; death, 118 Franklin, James (brother), 1, 11, 15, 18; jailing of, 25; Poor Robin (Newport, R.I. almanac), 48 Franklin, Sally. See Bache, Sally (daughter) Franklin, William Temple (grandson), 119 Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 106, 107, 128 Frederick the Second (Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel), 127–28 “Freeholder of Old Sarum,” 115–16 Gardner, Nathaniel, 15, 25 gas passing, chemistry to improve smell, 144–47 Gazetteer (London), 90 General Advertiser (London), 72 183 Index General Magazine, 60 Gentleman’s Calling, The (Allestree), 14 Gentleman’s Magazine (London), 72 George I, 106 George III, 85, 112, 135 Georgics (Virgil), 62 Glossographia (Blount), 22 Góngora, Luis de, 32 Great Awakening, first, 60 Greene, Jonas, 72 Haldimand, Frederick, 130, 131 Hall, David, 63 Hamilton, Henry, 131 Hanway, Jonas, 112 health, in later life, 8, 137, 153, 160 “Hell-Fire Club, The,” 12 Helvétius, Madame, 122, 124, 125 Herrick, John, 18 Hewson, William, 93 Hillsborough, Lord, 5, 6, 7, 8, 96, 101, 104 Howe, Richard, 119 Howell, James, 48, 85 Hume, David, 88 humility, 5–6 Hutchinson, Thomas, 101, 113, 165 Idea of the English School (Franklin), 65 Independent Chronicle (Boston), 130 Indians: propaganda using fictional Indian atrocities, 130–36; Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America (Franklin), 149–50; treaties, 134...