Franklin, Benjamin, birthplace of, iii, 33; early literary efforts of, iii, 36; in New York, iii, 38; in Philadelphia, iii, 38; meeting of, with Deborah Read, iii, 39; marriage of, iii, 43; public services of, iii, 48; foremost American, iii, 50; writings of, iii, 50; autobiography of, xiii, 313; Comte and, viii, 246; Peter Cooper compared with, xi, 234; Peter Cooper's ideal, xi, 257; founder of the first public library in America, ix, 226; John Jay compared with, iii, 250; on Catholicism, x, 368; on Harvard university, xi, 96; on love, viii, 290; Thomas Paine and, ix, 157, 164, 167; peace commissioner, iii, 252; prayer of, iii, 42; prophecy of, regarding Dart, the almanac-maker, i, 150; Ary Scheffer's admiration for, iv, 235; _Poor Richard's Almanac_, i, 150; referred to, i, 342; vi, 47; xi, 94; xii, 57, 179. Franklin stove, the, iii, 47. Frankness, v, 174. Frederick, Elector of Saxony, vii, 143. Frederick the Great, i, 81; Voltaire and, viii, 309; on Voltaire, ix, 387. Freedom, ix, 85; xiii, 85; happiness compared with, ix, 56; Mary Wollstonecraft on, xiii, 104; of speech and action in England, vi, 146. Freeman, Edward, on King Alfred, x, 124. Freethought, Byron and, v, 205; Christianity and, xii, 151. Free Trade, i, 114; Disraeli's attitude toward, v, 340. Fremont, John C., vii, 354. _French Revolution, The_, Carlyle, i, 80. French Revolution, cause of, ix, 372. "Friday Afternoon, A," iii, 185. Friendship, v, 175, 272; ix, 18; xiv, 312; the desire for, v, 85; Emerson on, ii, 286; ideal, v, 88; Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna, iv, 36; a religion of, ix, 217; striking instances of, i, 132; wine of, ii, 21. Friends, Society of, ix, 217. Frobisher, English sea-fighter, iv, 81. Froebel, Friedrich, debt of, to Rousseau, ix, 371; Herr Gruner and, x, 254; the Von Holzhausen family and, x, 257; influence of, viii, 204; parents of, x, 247; Pestalozzi and, x, 252; philosophy of, ix, 136; referred to, v, 211. Froude, James Anthony, on biography, vii, 347; on Benjamin Disraeli, v, 326. Fry, Elizabeth, ancestry of, ii, 198; religious nature of, ii, 200; marriage of, ii, 202; children of, ii, 202; prison experience of, ii, 206; continental experiences of, ii, 210; friend of humanity, ii, 212; message of, ix, 221; quoted, vii, 28. Fugitive Slave Law, ix, 297. Fuller, Chief Justice, on damage cases, x, 144. Fuller, Margaret, and Brook Farm, viii, 402; quoted, ix, 94. Fulton, Robert, xi, 21, 196, 248. Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony, vii, 67. _Fundamenta Botanica_, Linnaeus, xii, 300. Furniture, William Morris, v, 21; of the 15th century, v, 18. Furnivall, Dr., v, 40. Gage, General, quoted, iii, 94. Gainsborough hat, the, vi, 144.