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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... troops and workmen . Important passes may be seized within our limits , and forts built in a month , at a small expense , that may cost us an age and a million to remove . Dear experience has taught this . But what is still worse , the ...
... troops and workmen . Important passes may be seized within our limits , and forts built in a month , at a small expense , that may cost us an age and a million to remove . Dear experience has taught this . But what is still worse , the ...
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... troops and ships , at the same immense expense , to defend our possessions there , while we are in proportion go therefore , in the out settlements , they must be more remote ; and , as the people that move out are generally poor , they ...
... troops and ships , at the same immense expense , to defend our possessions there , while we are in proportion go therefore , in the out settlements , they must be more remote ; and , as the people that move out are generally poor , they ...
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... troops of ours placed there , and accountable here , would , in such remote and obscure places , and at so great a distance from the eye and inspection of supe- riors , soon become of little consequence , even though the French were ...
... troops of ours placed there , and accountable here , would , in such remote and obscure places , and at so great a distance from the eye and inspection of supe- riors , soon become of little consequence , even though the French were ...
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... troops , are nearer to London , than the remote parts of France and Spain to their respective capitals ; and much nearer than Connaught and Ulster were in the days of Queen Elizabeth . Nobody foretells the dissolution of the Russian ...
... troops , are nearer to London , than the remote parts of France and Spain to their respective capitals ; and much nearer than Connaught and Ulster were in the days of Queen Elizabeth . Nobody foretells the dissolution of the Russian ...
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... - gled . Then their huts were set on fire , and most of them burnt down . When the troop , pleased with their own conduct and bravery , but enraged that any of the poor Indians had escaped the massacre , rode off 56 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... - gled . Then their huts were set on fire , and most of them burnt down . When the troop , pleased with their own conduct and bravery , but enraged that any of the poor Indians had escaped the massacre , rode off 56 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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