Massachusetts Historical Society | Silence Dogood: Benjamin Franklin in The New-England Courant

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The Birth of Silence Dogood
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Silence Dogood essay 13
"Sir, In Persons of a contemplative Disposition, the most indifferent Things provoke the Excercise of the Imagination ..."

Article from page 1 of The New-England Courant, Number 60, 17-24 September 1722. This essay was written by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Silence Dogood.

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Silence Dogood essay 13"Sir, In Persons of a contemplative Disposition, the most indifferent Things provoke the Excercise of the Imagination ..."

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Silence Dogood essay 13
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