The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 |
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... hope for the pleasure of finding you well , when I shall have an opportunity of communicating to you more particularly the state of things here relating to our American affairs , which I cannot so well do by letter . To William Since my ...
... hope for the pleasure of finding you well , when I shall have an opportunity of communicating to you more particularly the state of things here relating to our American affairs , which I cannot so well do by letter . To William Since my ...
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... hope we shall find some way of making it worth your while . " I thanked his Lordship ; and said I should stay with pleasure , if I could any ways be useful to government . He made me a compliment and I took my leave , Mr. Cooper ...
... hope we shall find some way of making it worth your while . " I thanked his Lordship ; and said I should stay with pleasure , if I could any ways be useful to government . He made me a compliment and I took my leave , Mr. Cooper ...
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... hope , by the next packet , to give you farther light . In the mean time , as no one but Sir John knows of the treaty , I talk daily of going in the August packet at farthest . And when the late Georgia appointment of me to be their ...
... hope , by the next packet , to give you farther light . In the mean time , as no one but Sir John knows of the treaty , I talk daily of going in the August packet at farthest . And when the late Georgia appointment of me to be their ...
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... hope the cold you complain of , in two of your letters , went off without any ill consequences . We are , as you observe , blest with a great share of health , considering our years , now sixty - three . For my own part , I think of ...
... hope the cold you complain of , in two of your letters , went off without any ill consequences . We are , as you observe , blest with a great share of health , considering our years , now sixty - three . For my own part , I think of ...
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... hope my country folks will remain as fixed in their resolutions of industry and frugality , till these acts are repealed . And , if I could be sure of that , I should almost wish them never to be repealed ; being persuaded , that we ...
... hope my country folks will remain as fixed in their resolutions of industry and frugality , till these acts are repealed . And , if I could be sure of that , I should almost wish them never to be repealed ; being persuaded , that we ...
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Seite 263 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 377 - Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle. When I met with a man of pleasure, sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind, or of his fortune, to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit, Mistaken man, said I, you are providing fain for yourself, instead of pleasure ; you give too much for your whistle.
Seite 143 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 188 - To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: Most Gracious Sovereign: We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the...
Seite 367 - And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose? Have we not seen at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound?
Seite 248 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Seite 381 - I frequently hear the old generals of this martial country, who study the maps of America, and mark upon them all your operations, speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct ; and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age.
Seite 381 - Should peace arrive after another campaign or two, and afford us a little leisure, I should be happy to see your Excellency in Europe, and to accompany you, if my age and strength would permit, in visiting some of its ancient and most famous kingdoms.
Seite 290 - Upon the whole, it did not appear to your committee that his lordship's commission contained any other authority than that expressed in the act of Parliament, namely, that of granting pardons, with such exceptions as the commissioners shall think proper to make, and of declaring America, or any part of it, to be in the King's peace, upon submission...
Seite 280 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways ; we must all hang together." " Yes," replied Franklin, " we must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.