 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 890 Seiten
...intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and...above gold ; for we take care never to send back an otince of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,— gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (?), &c.; but you are the first philosopher,...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 Seiten
...intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c.; but you are the first philosopher, and...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day — "He has in no instance exhibited... | |
 | Perseverance - 1862 - 310 Seiten
...intend to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good thiugs, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but you are the first philosopher, and,...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." On his return to Philadelphia he received the thanks of the Assembly for his many services to Pennsylvania,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 Seiten
...America .has sent us many good things, — gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (7), &c. ; but ^ou are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the first...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 748 Seiten
...intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and,...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, <fec.; but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day,—"He has in no instance exhibited... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 Seiten
...intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and,...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited... | |
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I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. 
