Memoirs of the Life and Writings of B.F. ...W. Colburn, 1818 - 450 Seiten |
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... desires of preventing their ruin and promoting their mutual felicity , I have been apprehensive that if it were known a correspondence subsisted between us , it might be attended with inconvenience to you . I have there- fore been ...
... desires of preventing their ruin and promoting their mutual felicity , I have been apprehensive that if it were known a correspondence subsisted between us , it might be attended with inconvenience to you . I have there- fore been ...
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... desire , and am , as ever , your affectionate friend , B. FRANKLIN . ( Enclosing the foregoing . ) To MR . HUTTON . DEAR OLD FRIEND , Passy , Feb. 12 , 1778 . I wrote the above some time before I received yours , acquainting me with ...
... desire , and am , as ever , your affectionate friend , B. FRANKLIN . ( Enclosing the foregoing . ) To MR . HUTTON . DEAR OLD FRIEND , Passy , Feb. 12 , 1778 . I wrote the above some time before I received yours , acquainting me with ...
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... desire ; and am perfectly convinced from conversations I have since had with Mr. Pultney , that nobody was authorized to hold the language which has been imputed to him on that subject ; and as I have a high opinion of his candor and ...
... desire ; and am perfectly convinced from conversations I have since had with Mr. Pultney , that nobody was authorized to hold the language which has been imputed to him on that subject ; and as I have a high opinion of his candor and ...
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... désire de me voir , et je l'attends dans la matinée . Je ne serois pas surpris qu'il ne se proposât de semer la défiance entre nous en introduisant une double négociation ; mais je saurai y obvier , et vous serez instruit de ce qui se ...
... désire de me voir , et je l'attends dans la matinée . Je ne serois pas surpris qu'il ne se proposât de semer la défiance entre nous en introduisant une double négociation ; mais je saurai y obvier , et vous serez instruit de ce qui se ...
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... desire , and which you may gain some great advan- tage by granting or withholding . We have never asked it of you . We only tell you , that you can have no treaty with us but as an independent state ; and you may please yourselves and ...
... desire , and which you may gain some great advan- tage by granting or withholding . We have never asked it of you . We only tell you , that you can have no treaty with us but as an independent state ; and you may please yourselves and ...
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acquainted act of parliament Adams affairs agreed allies answer appear April assured Britain Britannic Majesty British commerce commission commissioners communicate Comte congress considered conversation copy Count de Vergennes courier court DAVID HARTLEY DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR declared definitive treaty desire disposition enclosed enemies England esteem Europe Excellency expected farther favor France Franklin give Grenville HENRY LAURENS Holland honor hope house of Bourbon humble servant independence informed intercourse JOHN ADAMS June king l'Angleterre late ministry letter liberty London Lord Cornwallis Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty's ministers plenipotentiary nation negociation Nova Scotia obedient obliged occasion opinion Paris parliament parole parties Passy persons preliminaries present prisoners proposed proposition ratification reason received reconciliation respect RICHARD OSWALD Secretary sent sentiments Sept ships sincere Spain thing thought tion told treaty of peace truce United Versailles wish write
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Seite 269 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 269 - Superior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the long Lake ; thence through the middle of said long Lake, and the water communication between it and the lake of the Woods, to the said lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Seite 270 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
Seite 278 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Seite 278 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Seite 269 - Mississippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line...
Seite 278 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said united States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries...
Seite 279 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Seite 272 - The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Seite 271 - States a re-consideration and revision of all acts or laws regarding the premises, so as to render the said laws or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.