| Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 Seiten
...length we are in peace, God be praised; and long, very long may it continue. -All wars are folhes, very expensive and very mischievous ones : when will mankind...arbitration ? were they to do it even by the cast of a dye, it would be better than by fighting and destroying each other. Spring is coming on when travelling... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 Seiten
...we are in peace, God be praised; and long,• very long may it continue. All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones : when will mankind...arbitration ? were they to do it even by the cast of a dye, it would be better than by fighting and destroying each other. Spring is coming on when travelling... | |
| 1833 - 574 Seiten
...length we are in peace, God be praised, and long, very long, may it continue. All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. When will mankind...better than by fighting and destroying each other.' In 1774, Dr. Franklin thus writes from London to a friend in this country on the subject of some imputations,... | |
| Jasper Adams - 1837 - 528 Seiten
...length we are in peace, God be praised, and long, very long, may it continue. All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. When will mankind...better than by fighting and destroying each other." Washington says, " It is time for the age of knight-errantry and mad heroism to be at an end. Young... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 592 Seiten
...length we are in peace, God be praised, and long, very long, may it continue. All wars are follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will mankind...other. Spring is coming on, when travelling will be deligWfuL Can you not, when you see your children all at school, make a little party, and take a trip... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 Seiten
...very long, may it continue ! All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. When wifi mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle...when travelling will be delightful. Can you not, when your children are all at school, make a little party, and take a trip hither? I have now a large house,... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...we are in peace, God be praised ! and long, very long, may it continue ! All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. When will mankind...even by the cast of a die, it would be better than by lighting and destroying each other. Let ne conclude by saying to you what I have had too frequent occasi... | |
| 1845 - 480 Seiten
...been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a GOOD WAR or a BAD PEACE. — Ml wars are follies,.very expensive and very mischievous ones. When will mankind...their differences by arbitration ? Were they to do it by the cast of a die, it would be better than by fighting and destroying each other." AMERICAN PEACE... | |
| 1845 - 620 Seiten
...been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace. — All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. When will mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration 1 Were they to do it -even by the cast of a die, it would be better than... | |
| 1845 - 648 Seiten
...be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace. — All wars are follies, very expensive and ?ery mischievous ones. When will mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration ? Were they to do it even by the cast of a die, it would be better than... | |
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