The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the Court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations, Band 1Henry Colburn, 1817 |
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... for which I shall ever have the utmost respect ; and believe me , with sincere esteem , dear Sir , B. FRANKLIN . Your most humble servant , TO MICHAEL HILLEGRAS , ESQ . PHILADELPHIA . On covering ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 1 , 11 OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ..
... for which I shall ever have the utmost respect ; and believe me , with sincere esteem , dear Sir , B. FRANKLIN . Your most humble servant , TO MICHAEL HILLEGRAS , ESQ . PHILADELPHIA . On covering ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 1 , 11 OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ..
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... very well.d a With sincere regard , I am , yours , & c . to yo B. FRANKLIN . TO SAMUEL RHOADS , ESQ . Containing the Method of 12 PART I. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE to Michael Hillegras, Esq Mar 17, 1770 On covering houses with Copper.
... very well.d a With sincere regard , I am , yours , & c . to yo B. FRANKLIN . TO SAMUEL RHOADS , ESQ . Containing the Method of 12 PART I. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE to Michael Hillegras, Esq Mar 17, 1770 On covering houses with Copper.
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... sincerely that you may determine for the best , I am ever , my dear friend , Yours , most affectionately , B. FRANKLIN . To MR . MATHER . Dissenters Petition . - America known to the Europeans REVEREND SIR , $ before Columbus . London ...
... sincerely that you may determine for the best , I am ever , my dear friend , Yours , most affectionately , B. FRANKLIN . To MR . MATHER . Dissenters Petition . - America known to the Europeans REVEREND SIR , $ before Columbus . London ...
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... sincere esteem and respect , your most obedient , humble servant , B. FRANKLIN . 1 . To HIS MOST SERENE HIGHNESS DON GABRIEL OF BOURBON . On receiving his Version of Sallust . Philadelphia , December 12 , 1775 . ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE , I ...
... sincere esteem and respect , your most obedient , humble servant , B. FRANKLIN . 1 . To HIS MOST SERENE HIGHNESS DON GABRIEL OF BOURBON . On receiving his Version of Sallust . Philadelphia , December 12 , 1775 . ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE , I ...
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... sincere and great esteem and affection I am ever , Dear Sir , Your most obedient , and most humble servant , k Oct. 17 , 1777 . B. FRANKLIN . EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO RICHARD BACHE , ESQ . PART I. 39 OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... sincere and great esteem and affection I am ever , Dear Sir , Your most obedient , and most humble servant , k Oct. 17 , 1777 . B. FRANKLIN . EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO RICHARD BACHE , ESQ . PART I. 39 OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted affairs affectionately agreeable America answer appear April 17 assembly believe best wishes Boston Britain colonies commerce Comte de Ségur congress continue copy dear friend DEAR SIR desire duty endeavour enemies England English enjoy Europe expect father favor France FRANKLIN gentleman give glad gout grandson hand happy hear heard HENRY LAURENS honor hope humble servant inclosed JOSEPH GALLOWAY kind letter King late Laurens liberty live London Lord Chatham Lord Dartmouth Lord Hillsborough Lord Shelburne Lordship March 13 ment mention merchants minister nation never obedient obliged obtain occasion opinion Paris parliament Passy peace perhaps petition Philadelphia piece pleased pleasure present printed proposed Prussia reason received your kind repeal secretary seems sent sentiments sincere esteem Society soon suppose thank thing THOMAS CUSHING thought tion writing
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Seite 139 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character : he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 149 - When I was a boy I met with a book entitled "Essays to Do Good," which I think was written by your father.* It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life, for I have always set a greater value...
Seite 278 - As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see...
Seite 322 - What the event will be, God only knows. But some punishment seems preparing for a people, who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution, and the best King, any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder...
Seite 126 - At length we are in peace, God be praised, and long, very long, may it continue! All wars are follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their differences by arbitration ? Were they to do it, even by the cast of a die, it would be better than by fighting and destroying each other.
Seite 52 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
Seite 150 - I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man who never missed any occasion of giving instruction ; and upon this he said to me : "You are young, and have the world before you : stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
Seite 130 - America, too, is extremely sensible of his benevolence and great beneficence towards her, and will ever revere his memory. These volumes are a proof of what I have sometimes had occasion to say, in encouraging people to undertake difficult public services, that it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a business of it.
Seite 280 - I will not enter into any discussion of your principles, though you seem to desire it. At present I shall only give you my opinion that, though your...
Seite 266 - Our new Constitution is now established, and has an. appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.