The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 Seiten |
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... nation , as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Voltaire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will inquire from what unfriendly ...
... nation , as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Voltaire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will inquire from what unfriendly ...
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... nation of well - informed men , who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them , cannot be enslaved . It is in the regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns . It flies before the light of science . Let the ...
... nation of well - informed men , who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them , cannot be enslaved . It is in the regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns . It flies before the light of science . Let the ...
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... nations ; to regulate trade with , and to make purchases of vacant lands from them , either in the name of the crown , or of the union ; to settle new colo nies , to make laws for governing these , until they should be erected into ...
... nations ; to regulate trade with , and to make purchases of vacant lands from them , either in the name of the crown , or of the union ; to settle new colo nies , to make laws for governing these , until they should be erected into ...
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... nations , must inevitably produce dissatis- faction , even though no duties were imposed by the parliament ; a circumstance which might still have taken place . Besides , as the president- general was to be appointed by the crown , he ...
... nations , must inevitably produce dissatis- faction , even though no duties were imposed by the parliament ; a circumstance which might still have taken place . Besides , as the president- general was to be appointed by the crown , he ...
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... nations of Europe were considered as almost barbarians , in comparison with Englishmen . The name of an Englishman conveyed to an American the idea of every thing good and great . Such sen- timents instilled into them in early life ...
... nations of Europe were considered as almost barbarians , in comparison with Englishmen . The name of an Englishman conveyed to an American the idea of every thing good and great . Such sen- timents instilled into them in early life ...
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