The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks, Band 10 |
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... interests , than perhaps any other under heaven . Every man among us reads , and is so easy in his circumstances as ... interest of our two countries is a thorough t reconciliation . Restraints on the freedom of commerce and 2 [ ET . 77 ...
... interests , than perhaps any other under heaven . Every man among us reads , and is so easy in his circumstances as ... interest of our two countries is a thorough t reconciliation . Restraints on the freedom of commerce and 2 [ ET . 77 ...
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... interest in such redemption . It was impossible , that I should have traded with the public money , since I had not traded with any money , either separately or jointly with any other person , directly or indirectly , to the value of a ...
... interest in such redemption . It was impossible , that I should have traded with the public money , since I had not traded with any money , either separately or jointly with any other person , directly or indirectly , to the value of a ...
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... interest of our national debt , ac- cording to the requisition of Congress . This measure has met with uncommon opposition here . Congress having voted to the officers of the army five years ' whole pay after the war , instead of half ...
... interest of our national debt , ac- cording to the requisition of Congress . This measure has met with uncommon opposition here . Congress having voted to the officers of the army five years ' whole pay after the war , instead of half ...
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... interest paid by the lottery plan is nearly seven per cent . I have received the duplicates of your Excellency's letter of the 15th of July , to the Commissioners , which is very satisfactory , though it came to hand but lately . The ...
... interest paid by the lottery plan is nearly seven per cent . I have received the duplicates of your Excellency's letter of the 15th of July , to the Commissioners , which is very satisfactory , though it came to hand but lately . The ...
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... interest and principal of debts duly contracted . They seem to mistake the point . Money , justly due from the people , is their creditors ' money , and no longer the money of the people , who , if they withhold it , should be compelled ...
... interest and principal of debts duly contracted . They seem to mistake the point . Money , justly due from the people , is their creditors ' money , and no longer the money of the people , who , if they withhold it , should be compelled ...
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Seite 207 - ... the Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches, and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops priests, and deacons.
Seite 409 - God grant, that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man, may pervade all the nations of the earth ; so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface, and say, This is my country...
Seite 82 - ... debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation when he shall be able and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress.
Seite 59 - ... as due to the mandarin himself; on the supposition that it must have been owing to the education, instruction, and good example, afforded him by his parents, that he was rendered capable of serving the public.
Seite 408 - Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.* Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov.
Seite 11 - I hope it will be lasting, and that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats : for, in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.
Seite 457 - A True State of the Proceedings in the Parliament of Great Britain, and in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Relative to the Giving and Granting the Money of the People of that Province, and of all America, in the House of Commons, in which they are not represented.
Seite 88 - ... be encouraged and promoted by better prospects of success. Let us therefore beware of being lulled into a dangerous security; and of being both enervated and impoverished by luxury; of being weakened by internal contentions and divisions; of being shamefully extravagant in contracting private debts, while we are backward in discharging honorably those of the public ; of neglect in military...
Seite 98 - Esquire, President;" and the date supposed to be omitted, perhaps from its not appearing in figures, is nevertheless to be found written in words at length, viz. " this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four," which made the figures unnecessary.
Seite 173 - UNDER this marble, or under this sill, Or under this turf, or e'en what they will ; Whatever an heir, or a friend in his stead, Or any good creature shall lay o'er my head, Lies one who ne'er cared, and still cares not a pin What they said, or may say, of the mortal within : But who, living and dying, serene still and free, Trusts in God, that as well as he was, he shall be.