The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 |
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... means to stay the ensuing winter , as the presence of persons well acquainted with America , and of ability to represent these affairs in a proper light , will then be highly necessary . My private concerns , however , so much require ...
... means to stay the ensuing winter , as the presence of persons well acquainted with America , and of ability to represent these affairs in a proper light , will then be highly necessary . My private concerns , however , so much require ...
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... mean present interest and present happiness ; for I think your future , greater , and more lasting interest and ... means in your power , to make the remainder of her days as comfortable to her as possible . Invent amusements for ...
... mean present interest and present happiness ; for I think your future , greater , and more lasting interest and ... means in your power , to make the remainder of her days as comfortable to her as possible . Invent amusements for ...
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... means ; and if it intends the downfall of a nation , that nation will be so blinded by its pride and other passions , as not to see its danger , or how its fall may be prevented . Being born and bred in one of the countries , and having ...
... means ; and if it intends the downfall of a nation , that nation will be so blinded by its pride and other passions , as not to see its danger , or how its fall may be prevented . Being born and bred in one of the countries , and having ...
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... means of securing us from the arbitrary power of a corrupt Parliament , that does not like us , and conceives itself to have an interest in keeping us down and fleecing us . If they should urge the inconvenience of an empire's being ...
... means of securing us from the arbitrary power of a corrupt Parliament , that does not like us , and conceives itself to have an interest in keeping us down and fleecing us . If they should urge the inconvenience of an empire's being ...
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... mean opinion I entertain of his abilities and fitness for his station . His character is conceit , wrongheadedness ... means well . If that be true , as perhaps it may , I wish him a better place , where only honesty and well - meaning ...
... mean opinion I entertain of his abilities and fitness for his station . His character is conceit , wrongheadedness ... means well . If that be true , as perhaps it may , I wish him a better place , where only honesty and well - meaning ...
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Seite 263 - 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 377 - Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle. When I met with a man of pleasure, sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind, or of his fortune, to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit, Mistaken man, said I, you are providing fain for yourself, instead of pleasure ; you give too much for your whistle.
Seite 143 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 188 - To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: Most Gracious Sovereign: We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the...
Seite 367 - And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose? Have we not seen at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound?
Seite 248 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Seite 381 - I frequently hear the old generals of this martial country, who study the maps of America, and mark upon them all your operations, speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct ; and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age.
Seite 381 - Should peace arrive after another campaign or two, and afford us a little leisure, I should be happy to see your Excellency in Europe, and to accompany you, if my age and strength would permit, in visiting some of its ancient and most famous kingdoms.
Seite 290 - Upon the whole, it did not appear to your committee that his lordship's commission contained any other authority than that expressed in the act of Parliament, namely, that of granting pardons, with such exceptions as the commissioners shall think proper to make, and of declaring America, or any part of it, to be in the King's peace, upon submission...
Seite 280 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways ; we must all hang together." " Yes," replied Franklin, " we must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.