Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Statesman, Philosopher and Practical Citizen, 1706-1790G. P. Putnam's sons, 1898 - 354 Seiten |
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... treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle had been signed ( 1748 ) . Philadelphia now settled down to quietude , but she was not the Philadelphia of old . Mars had won a victory within the very gates of his most fervent enemies , and the dogma of ...
... treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle had been signed ( 1748 ) . Philadelphia now settled down to quietude , but she was not the Philadelphia of old . Mars had won a victory within the very gates of his most fervent enemies , and the dogma of ...
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... treaty with the Ohio Indians , and so it came about that Franklin and Isaac Norris were appointed to represent the Pennsylvania Assembly in treating with these savages at Carlisle . It must have been an odd , picturesque incident , and ...
... treaty with the Ohio Indians , and so it came about that Franklin and Isaac Norris were appointed to represent the Pennsylvania Assembly in treating with these savages at Carlisle . It must have been an odd , picturesque incident , and ...
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... treaties with the Indians , conduct Indian wars , levy taxes for the support of the general government , and for public defence , and to otherwise exercise important prerogatives . The plan had so many virtues that it was finally ...
... treaties with the Indians , conduct Indian wars , levy taxes for the support of the general government , and for public defence , and to otherwise exercise important prerogatives . The plan had so many virtues that it was finally ...
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... treaty of compromise , and as med- dling might bring censure it would be easier to leave Congress to deal with the vexed problem . But the doctor kept to himself his fears of criticism , if he had any ; he promised Lord Howe to draw up ...
... treaty of compromise , and as med- dling might bring censure it would be easier to leave Congress to deal with the vexed problem . But the doctor kept to himself his fears of criticism , if he had any ; he promised Lord Howe to draw up ...
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... treaty of commerce in exchange for secret help , " finally concluding that " we can pre- serve peace only by giving aid to the Americans ; two or three millions may save us our sugar islands , worth three hundred . " At last ...
... treaty of commerce in exchange for secret help , " finally concluding that " we can pre- serve peace only by giving aid to the Americans ; two or three millions may save us our sugar islands , worth three hundred . " At last ...
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Seite 241 - 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 330 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 46 - FOLLY; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says in his Almanack of 1733.
Seite 18 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Seite 323 - It, therefore, astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does: and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Seite 176 - America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 178 - They were governed by this country at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper. They were led by a thread. They had not only a respect but an affection for Great Britain; for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that gready increased the commerce.
Seite 52 - We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive, must ask his wife" It was lucky for me that I had one as much disposed to industry and frugality as myself.
Seite 194 - ... tes, and villains of every denomination, who have forfeited their lives to the law in Prussia; but whom we, in our great clemency, do not think fit here to hang, shall be emptied out of our gaols into the said island of Great Britain, for the better peopling of that country.
Seite 3 - I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far thro' life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which, with the blessing of God, so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.