Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1H. Colburn, 1833 |
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... Lord Viscount Howe , August 18 , 1784 159 to William Strahan , esq . August 19 , 1784 160 to George Wheatley , esq . August 21 , 1784 to to B. Vaughan , esq . Sept. 7 , 1784 165 · ( supposed to Dr. Priestley ) , August 21 , 1784 167 168 ...
... Lord Viscount Howe , August 18 , 1784 159 to William Strahan , esq . August 19 , 1784 160 to George Wheatley , esq . August 21 , 1784 to to B. Vaughan , esq . Sept. 7 , 1784 165 · ( supposed to Dr. Priestley ) , August 21 , 1784 167 168 ...
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... Lord ! Lord ! who value themselves upon their faith , though great enough to perform miracles , but have neglected good works , shall be rejected . He professed that he came not to call the righteous , but sinners to repentance ; which ...
... Lord ! Lord ! who value themselves upon their faith , though great enough to perform miracles , but have neglected good works , shall be rejected . He professed that he came not to call the righteous , but sinners to repentance ; which ...
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... Lord Howe is to bombard Boston this summer , and Burgoyne , with the troops from Canada , to destroy Providence , and lay waste Connecticut ; while Howe marches against Philadelphia . They will do us undoubtedly as much mischief as they ...
... Lord Howe is to bombard Boston this summer , and Burgoyne , with the troops from Canada , to destroy Providence , and lay waste Connecticut ; while Howe marches against Philadelphia . They will do us undoubtedly as much mischief as they ...
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... Lord N-- ; that having it in your power to hang or send him to the lighters , you had generously reprieved him for transpor- tation . SIR , TO GENERAL BECKWITH . Passy , May , 17 , 1779 . Having assured you verbally that I had no autho ...
... Lord N-- ; that having it in your power to hang or send him to the lighters , you had generously reprieved him for transpor- tation . SIR , TO GENERAL BECKWITH . Passy , May , 17 , 1779 . Having assured you verbally that I had no autho ...
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... Lord Chatham , which I saw when in London , must think that so able an officer might have been ex- ceedingly useful to our cause , if he had been in America at the beginning of the war . But there is a great difficulty at this time in ...
... Lord Chatham , which I saw when in London , must think that so able an officer might have been ex- ceedingly useful to our cause , if he had been in America at the beginning of the war . But there is a great difficulty at this time in ...
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Seite 145 - I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
Seite 400 - Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is twenty thousand pounds a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by our taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time sixty thousand children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory.
Seite 263 - As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see...
Seite 135 - I am, on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like a turkey. For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours...
Seite 396 - You know it was said he carried the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other; and it seems he chose to give them a taste of the sword first.
Seite 251 - 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 51 - I must soon quit the scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the war is over ; like a field of young Indian corn, which long fair weather and sunshine had enfeebled and discolored, and which in that weak state, by a...
Seite 299 - The more I have thought and read on the subject. the more I find myself confirmed in opinion that no middle doctrine can be well maintained, I mean not clearly with intelligible arguments. Something might be made of either of the extremes : that Parliament has a power to make all laws for us, or that it has a power to make no laws for us ; and I think the arguments for the latter more numerous and weighty, than those of the former.
Seite 177 - I say, that when I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls, or believe that He will suffer the daily waste of millions of minds ready made, that now exist, and put himself to the continual trouble of making new ones. Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall in some shape or other always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, —hoping, however,...
Seite 42 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.