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on July 6, 1736, and differences between the two suggest earlier origins by a different author. Franklin deemed drunkenness as a vice that could never be a virtue, so various terms and phrases were created to mask the inappropriateness of the act.
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Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.
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and appears in his memoirs; however, a very similar wordlist appears in the
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Benjamin Franklin; William Temple Franklin; William Duane (1859).
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Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin, William Temple, Duane, William,
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Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One
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A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
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Levine, Harry (1981). "The Vocabulary of Drunkenness".
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Levine, Harry (1981). "The Vocabulary of Drunkenness".
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drunkenness
Old Style
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Benjamin Franklin
New England Weekly Journal
doi
10.15288/jsa.1981.42.1038
PMID
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2
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From the Writings of Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette 1736–1737
Archived
Wayback Machine
"The Source for Benjamin Franklin's "The Drinkers Dictionary" (And Was It Mather Byles?)"
doi
10.1215/00031283-2006-011
doi
10.15288/jsa.1981.42.1038
PMID
7038310
Internet Archive text of the Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
President of Pennsylvania (1785–1788)
Ambassador to France (1779–1785)
Second Continental Congress (1775–1776)
Join, or Die. (1754 political cartoon)

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