Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1889 - 428 Seiten |
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... independence , and an assump- tion of the right to exercise control in the matter of the public finances.1 The Penns rejoiced . 1 Bancroft , Hist . U. S. , iv . 176 . Thomas Penn wrote , doubtless with a malicious chuckle : 48 BENJAMIN ...
... independence , and an assump- tion of the right to exercise control in the matter of the public finances.1 The Penns rejoiced . 1 Bancroft , Hist . U. S. , iv . 176 . Thomas Penn wrote , doubtless with a malicious chuckle : 48 BENJAMIN ...
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... independence it might create in those provinces , when they should see within them- selves so great an army , possessed of so great a country by right of conquest . " This anxiety had been steadily gaining ground . The home govern- ment ...
... independence it might create in those provinces , when they should see within them- selves so great an army , possessed of so great a country by right of conquest . " This anxiety had been steadily gaining ground . The home govern- ment ...
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... one day set up for independence . " " No such idea , " said Franklin , " is entertained by the Amer- icans , or ever will be , unless you grossly abuse them . " " Very true , " said Pratt REPRESENTATIVE IN ENGLAND . 81.
... one day set up for independence . " " No such idea , " said Franklin , " is entertained by the Amer- icans , or ever will be , unless you grossly abuse them . " " Very true , " said Pratt REPRESENTATIVE IN ENGLAND . 81.
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... independence , and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point . We might as well have hindered the sun's setting . That we could not do . But since it is down , my friend , and it may be long before it rises again ...
... independence , and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point . We might as well have hindered the sun's setting . That we could not do . But since it is down , my friend , and it may be long before it rises again ...
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... had brought the ministers by his " imprudence . " Parliament , his lordship said , could not " suffer such a declaration of the colonial 99 Assembly , asserting its independence , to pass un- SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND . 165.
... had brought the ministers by his " imprudence . " Parliament , his lordship said , could not " suffer such a declaration of the colonial 99 Assembly , asserting its independence , to pass un- SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND . 165.
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Seite 203 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 405 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Seite 36 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we should do freely and generously.
Seite 6 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Seite 28 - I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho...
Seite 44 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, and tho' they did not much like treating out of the provinces; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defense and other important general purposes.
Seite 397 - I had not firmness enough to resist the unanimous desire of my country folks ; and I find myself harnessed again in their service for another year. They engrossed the prime of my life. They have eaten my flesh, and seem resolved now to pick my bones.
Seite 133 - The very tails of the American sheep are so laden with wool that each has a little car or waggon on four little wheels to support and keep it from trailing on the ground.