. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. weeks of the densest hap-piness he ever experienced in his life. The ex-change of the writings of Kames and of Pranklin,and the mutual respect entertained by each for theother, show an intimacy founded on high esteem,and a sincerity which lasted until the death of LordKames. Many years the senior of Franklin, he diedeight years before him, in 1782. Connected with the history of the acquaintanceof Franklin and Lord Kames is a curious literaryanecdote. While on his visit to Lord Kames, Frank- 300 LIFE OF F
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. weeks of the densest hap-piness he ever experienced in his life. The ex-change of the writings of Kames and of Pranklin,and the mutual respect entertained by each for theother, show an intimacy founded on high esteem,and a sincerity which lasted until the death of LordKames. Many years the senior of Franklin, he diedeight years before him, in 1782. Connected with the history of the acquaintanceof Franklin and Lord Kames is a curious literaryanecdote. While on his visit to Lord Kames, Frank- 300 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. lin read or recited his well-known Parable againstPersecution. Lord Karnes inserted it in his workentitled Sketches of the History of Man, publish-ed in the year 1774. He there prefaced it with theremark that it was communicated to him by , of Philadelphia; a man who makes agreat figure in the learned world, and who wouldmake a still greater figure for benevolence and can-dor, were virtue as much regarded in this decliningage as knowledge. The parable we here annex:. ^
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