book iii

. chap. xiv._

In Sparks's edition of Franklin's Works, vol. vi. p. 354, there are letters between Franklin, Brownrigg, and Parish on the stilling of waves by means of oil.

[717-2] To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.

DU BARTAS: _Divine Weekes and Workes, first week, third day._

[717-3] He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first.--BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy,