1Silence Dogood, No. 9, 23 July 1722 (Franklin Papers)
...the Person deceas’d. The Reason of this Blindness in the Clergy is, because they are...
2A Letter to a Friend in the Country, [25 September 1735] (Franklin Papers)
...a Pretence to Infallibility, or a wilful Blindness. Neither can I see what great...
3William Watson: An Account of Franklin’s Treatise, [6 June 1751] (Franklin Papers)
...of sight, I should not wonder if perfect blindness were the consequence of the...
4To George Washington from John Kirkpatrick, 23 August 1758 (Washington Papers)
...her Measures—We now, can only bewaill that Blindness—and wish for happier times—which seem at...
5From George Washington to John Robinson, 1 September 1758 (Washington Papers)
...⟩ her Measures. We now can only bewail that blindness, and wish for happier times, which seem...
6John Adams to Abigail Smith, 26 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
...will be. And Parents must be lost in Avarice or Blindness, who restrain their Children.
7X. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford, 9 February 1767 (Adams Papers)
...Philanthrop seems to be so far given up to blindness of mind, as to think that his quotations...
8Hannah Walker to Margaret Stevenson, 4 January 1775 (Franklin Papers)
...seven years earlier his mother had learned that his incipient blindness was incurable: above,
...who are not determin’d to be in everlasting blindness, that it is the united efforts of both...
10Abigail Adams to Edward Dilly, 22 May 1775 (Adams Papers)
...you cannot any longer suffer a Spirit of blindness and infatuation to delude you. These are...