The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 4Hillard, Gray,, 1840 |
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... opinion , and shall presently give my reasons . Ad- But first let me observe , that we did not make those claims because they were large enough for security , but because we could rightfully claim no more . vantages gained in the course ...
... opinion , and shall presently give my reasons . Ad- But first let me observe , that we did not make those claims because they were large enough for security , but because we could rightfully claim no more . vantages gained in the course ...
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... opinion ) may in its consequences be dangerous . " * how ? Why , plainly , ( at length it comes out ) if the French are not left there to check the growth of our colonies , " they will extend themselves almost without bounds into the ...
... opinion ) may in its consequences be dangerous . " * how ? Why , plainly , ( at length it comes out ) if the French are not left there to check the growth of our colonies , " they will extend themselves almost without bounds into the ...
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... opinion , this " is not a fit subject for discussion . " I shall give mine , because I conceive it a subject necessary to be dis- cussed ; and the rather , as those fears , how groundless and chimerical soever , may , by possessing the ...
... opinion , this " is not a fit subject for discussion . " I shall give mine , because I conceive it a subject necessary to be dis- cussed ; and the rather , as those fears , how groundless and chimerical soever , may , by possessing the ...
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... opinion is true ; for had the French been left in Canada , the English ministers would not only have sooner felt , but sooner have seen , the strange fatality of their plans . — B. V. * " Omnes Græcorum civitates , quæ in Europâ ...
... opinion is true ; for had the French been left in Canada , the English ministers would not only have sooner felt , but sooner have seen , the strange fatality of their plans . — B. V. * " Omnes Græcorum civitates , quæ in Europâ ...
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... opinion , that , valuable as the French possessions in the West Indies are , and undeniable as the advantages they derive from them , there is some- what to be weighed in the opposite scale . They can- not at present make war with ...
... opinion , that , valuable as the French possessions in the West Indies are , and undeniable as the advantages they derive from them , there is some- what to be weighed in the opposite scale . They can- not at present make war with ...
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