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- adjective Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
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Examples
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And we have been that way long enough that on the basis of data and not ideology we can evaluate how these anti-Franklinian policies have performed.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin and a Modern American Portrait -- Tax Cuts, Poverty, and Moving In Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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And we have been that way long enough that on the basis of data and not ideology we can evaluate how these anti-Franklinian policies have performed.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin and a Modern American Portrait -- Tax Cuts, Poverty, and Moving In Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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What's lacking is real insight into how he developed his ideas -- there's no Newtonian apple or Franklinian lightning storm.
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Franklinian Politicks, would make it Purgatory to me.
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This is the Franklinian view, and, if I mistake not, is the one most in favor with men of science at the present day.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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His treatise "Della maniera di difendere gli edificii dal fulmine" (1772) and his pamphlet "Dei conduttori metallici a preservazione degli edifici dal fulmine" (1774) contributed largely to remove the popular prejudices of the time against the use of the "Franklinian rod"; and through his exertions lightning-conductors were placed on the Cathedral of Siena, on the tower of St. Mark's, Venice, on powder magazines, and ships of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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These men worked together constantly, although it appears to have been Franklin who made independently the important discoveries, and formulated the famous Franklinian theory.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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Franklin's magazine contained parliamentary proceedings, extracts from sermons, a bit of verse of more than Franklinian foulness, rhymes eulogizing Gilbert Tennent, and a manual of arms.
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
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Franklinian maxim -- he kept a store of such things for stump use -- that an old young man makes a young old man.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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It avoided religion, but was full of Franklinian good sense.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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