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... heard the sum they reported , but hope to give you all the particulars by the next ship , which I understand sails in about a fortnight , when Dr. Foth- ergill and myself are to write a joint letter to the com- mittee , to whom please ...
... heard the sum they reported , but hope to give you all the particulars by the next ship , which I understand sails in about a fortnight , when Dr. Foth- ergill and myself are to write a joint letter to the com- mittee , to whom please ...
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... heard , no doubt , of that project . The circumstances of the affair could not be more honorable for him , nor could the honor be conferred on one , who deserves it more . I really believe , with the French author of whom you have ...
... heard , no doubt , of that project . The circumstances of the affair could not be more honorable for him , nor could the honor be conferred on one , who deserves it more . I really believe , with the French author of whom you have ...
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... heard no more of , but I am pretty sure it was reported where I could wish it , though I know not that it had any effect . As to my situation here , nothing can be more agree- able , especially as I hope for less embarrassment from the ...
... heard no more of , but I am pretty sure it was reported where I could wish it , though I know not that it had any effect . As to my situation here , nothing can be more agree- able , especially as I hope for less embarrassment from the ...
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... heard to speak of me with great regard . These are flattering circumstances ; but a violent longing for home sometimes seizes me , which I can no otherwise subdue but by promising myself a return next spring or next fall , and so forth ...
... heard to speak of me with great regard . These are flattering circumstances ; but a violent longing for home sometimes seizes me , which I can no otherwise subdue but by promising myself a return next spring or next fall , and so forth ...
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... heard from Mr. Wilmot , that they have been presented . Lord Hillsborough , mortified by the Committee of Council's approbation of our grant , in opposition to his VOL . VIIL 3 B * report , has resigned . I believe , when he ET . 66 ...
... heard from Mr. Wilmot , that they have been presented . Lord Hillsborough , mortified by the Committee of Council's approbation of our grant , in opposition to his VOL . VIIL 3 B * report , has resigned . I believe , when he ET . 66 ...
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acquainted affairs affectionately alliance America answer appointed arrived Arthur Lee bills Boston Britain British Captain CHARLES W. F. DUMAS colonies Commissioners Committee conduct Congress continue copy court DAVID HARTLEY Deane dear friend DEAR SIR desire duty enclosed endeavour England English Europe expected expense favor France FRANKLIN French gentleman give glad governor hands Hartley hear Holland honor hope House JOHN PAUL JONES JOSEPH GALLOWAY kind King lately letter liberty London Lord Dartmouth Lord Hillsborough Lord North Lordship Majesty Marquis de Lafayette measures ment mention minister ministry nation never obliged obtain occasion officers opinion papers Paris Parliament Passy peace perhaps person petition pleasure present prisoners proposed propositions province received SAMUEL COOPER sent sentiments ship sincere soon suppose taken thing THOMAS CUSHING thought thousand tion treaty troops VIII wish write
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Seite 500 - When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Seite 151 - 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,
Seite 18 - ... consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives that at different times occur to me for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Seite 180 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Seite 504 - We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Seite 87 - Damn his impudence, I dare say, u'e shall hear by next post that he is upon his march with one hundred thousand men to back this.
Seite 411 - We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan, that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats.
Seite 325 - This currency, as we manage it, is a wonderful machine. It performs its office when we issue it ; it pays and clothes troops, and provides victuals and ammunition, and when we are obliged to issue a quantity excessive, it pays itself off by depreciation.
Seite 133 - ... Pennsylvania with a view of settling there. I request you to give him your best advice and countenance, as he is quite a stranger there. If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or assistant surveyor, (of all...
Seite 87 - Whitehead, who is very shrewd, soon after began to smoke it, and looking in my face said, /'// be hanged if this is not some of your American jokes upon us. The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit: and the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my lord's collection.