The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... court of Denmark , and delivered up to him . I have with the approbation of the ministry here , drawn up and sent to that court , a me- morial reclaiming those prizes . It went through the hands of the French minister residing there ...
... court of Denmark , and delivered up to him . I have with the approbation of the ministry here , drawn up and sent to that court , a me- morial reclaiming those prizes . It went through the hands of the French minister residing there ...
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... court of Denmark , I have since received an answer from the min- ister of that court for foreign affairs , a copy of which I en- close ; it referred me to the Danish minister here , with whom I have had a conference on the subject . He ...
... court of Denmark , I have since received an answer from the min- ister of that court for foreign affairs , a copy of which I en- close ; it referred me to the Danish minister here , with whom I have had a conference on the subject . He ...
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... court of Denmark , relative to the three prizes delivered up to the English , and requested the instructions of congress ; I hope soon to receive them . I mentioned a letter from the congress to that court , as what I thought might have ...
... court of Denmark , relative to the three prizes delivered up to the English , and requested the instructions of congress ; I hope soon to receive them . I mentioned a letter from the congress to that court , as what I thought might have ...
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... court of Denmark will at length attend to a de- mand , long since made by me , but hitherto without effect ; that they would restore to the United States , the value of three vessels amounting to fifty thousand pounds sterling . These ...
... court of Denmark will at length attend to a de- mand , long since made by me , but hitherto without effect ; that they would restore to the United States , the value of three vessels amounting to fifty thousand pounds sterling . These ...
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... Denmark against an American privateer , called the Henry . NOTE . THE court of Denmark has been informed that the ship Providence of Christiana in Norway , destined from Lon- don for St. Thomas's , a Danish island , with a cargo of di ...
... Denmark against an American privateer , called the Henry . NOTE . THE court of Denmark has been informed that the ship Providence of Christiana in Norway , destined from Lon- don for St. Thomas's , a Danish island , with a cargo of di ...
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Seite 401 - Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, nor Counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the...
Seite 401 - But you who are wise must know, that different Nations have different Conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our Ideas of this Kind of Education happen not to be the same with yours.
Seite 182 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Seite 181 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and Fast Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean...
Seite 180 - 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...
Seite 193 - 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 181 - 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 180 - 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 433 - 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.