sentences:  Franklin dedicated his "Dissertation Upon Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain," to Ralph because he felt responsible for weakening Ralph's religious convictions (Kenny 331).Franklin returned to America in 1726, but Ralph stayed, and he attempted to be a poet.In 1727, Ralph read James Thomson's "Winter" and imitated it with "The Tempest, or the Terrors of Death," and he followed that in 1728 with "Night."