 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great wny towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. Our country produces, or is capable of producing, all the necees*, ries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." * * This letter was dated in London, July llth, 1765. Charles Thomson... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." * • Thin letter was dated in London, July llth, 1765. Charles... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way toward indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." Mr. Thompson's reply to the above letter is so interesting, that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." * * This letter was dated in London, July llth, 1765. Charles Thomson... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." This letter was dated in London, July llth, 1765. Thomson said,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1852 - 484 Seiten
...can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...parliaments ; if we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter." For the opportunity of printing the above paragraph correctly, in Franklin's... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 472 Seiten
...We may still light candles. Frugality and indus- J^ try will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings...parliaments ; if we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter." , For the opportunity of printing the above paragraph correctly, in Franklin's... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 Seiten
...the original in her possession. The copy was made for me, with the utmost exactness, by Mr. A. II. Grimshaw, of Wilmington, and carefully compared with...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." This is not what Franklin wrote. To " bear " with kings and parliaments... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1864 - 492 Seiten
...and all parties joined in resolving by this sot to settle the point. "We might as well have hindered the sun's setting : that we could not do. But since...and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." This is not what Franklin wrote. To " bear" with kings and parliaments... | |
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tis down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than... 
