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... late change , however , being thrown into the balance , determines me to stay another winter . August 22d . - I find I omitted congratulating you on the honor of your election into the Society for propagating the Gospel . There you ...
... late change , however , being thrown into the balance , determines me to stay another winter . August 22d . - I find I omitted congratulating you on the honor of your election into the Society for propagating the Gospel . There you ...
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... late celebrated This mark of respect from world , which Abbé Nollet , filling was made by the Van Swieten of Vienna . the first academy in the one of its members , took so much pains to prejudice against my doctrines , I consider as a ...
... late celebrated This mark of respect from world , which Abbé Nollet , filling was made by the Van Swieten of Vienna . the first academy in the one of its members , took so much pains to prejudice against my doctrines , I consider as a ...
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... late occasions by the Parliament , had occasioned a total loss of the re- spect for and confidence in that body , formerly sub- sisting so strongly in America , and brought on a ques- tioning of their authority ; that his Lordship might ...
... late occasions by the Parliament , had occasioned a total loss of the re- spect for and confidence in that body , formerly sub- sisting so strongly in America , and brought on a ques- tioning of their authority ; that his Lordship might ...
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... should tend to compose the minds of people in that province , at present greatly disquieted and alarmed by sonie late measures of government . ” When I next attended him , he returned me the 28 [ ÆT . 66 . FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... should tend to compose the minds of people in that province , at present greatly disquieted and alarmed by sonie late measures of government . ” When I next attended him , he returned me the 28 [ ÆT . 66 . FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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... late , there has been little remarkable in our public affairs for more than a year . The appoint- ment of Lord Dartmouth to the American Department was received here with a general joy , which was soon checked by his official letter to ...
... late , there has been little remarkable in our public affairs for more than a year . The appoint- ment of Lord Dartmouth to the American Department was received here with a general joy , which was soon checked by his official letter to ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
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.