Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1H. Colburn, 1833 |
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... thing ; it may possibly serve to scrape a trencher . I Pray make my compliments and best wishes ac- ceptable to your bride . I am old and heavy , or I should ere this have presented them in person . shall make but small use of the old ...
... thing ; it may possibly serve to scrape a trencher . I Pray make my compliments and best wishes ac- ceptable to your bride . I am old and heavy , or I should ere this have presented them in person . shall make but small use of the old ...
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... thing , I can- not but fancy it might be better to continue living ourselves at the same time . I rejoice , therefore , in your kind intentions of including me in the benefits of that inestimable stone , which curing all diseases ( even ...
... thing , I can- not but fancy it might be better to continue living ourselves at the same time . I rejoice , therefore , in your kind intentions of including me in the benefits of that inestimable stone , which curing all diseases ( even ...
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... in hinting this will be pardoned . If in any thing on this side the globe I can render either ser- vice or pleasure to your royal highness , your com- mands will make me happy . With the utmost esteem 20 PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
... in hinting this will be pardoned . If in any thing on this side the globe I can render either ser- vice or pleasure to your royal highness , your com- mands will make me happy . With the utmost esteem 20 PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
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... thing you could fill the boxes with to keep them steady . He supposes , therefore , that you must put them into post - chaises , two and two , which will make a long train upon the road , and be a very ex- pensive conveyance ; but as ...
... thing you could fill the boxes with to keep them steady . He supposes , therefore , that you must put them into post - chaises , two and two , which will make a long train upon the road , and be a very ex- pensive conveyance ; but as ...
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... thing as by your capitulation of Saratoga : * they have not yet got over it , though a little elevated this spring by their success against the French commerce . But the growing apprehension of having Spain too upon their hands has ...
... thing as by your capitulation of Saratoga : * they have not yet got over it , though a little elevated this spring by their success against the French commerce . But the growing apprehension of having Spain too upon their hands has ...
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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.