The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... drafts , or their account of them never reached us , and they still continue coming in : and we are now surprised with advice of drafts from Mr. Bingham , to the amount of one hundred thousand more . If you re- duce us to bankruptcy ...
... drafts , or their account of them never reached us , and they still continue coming in : and we are now surprised with advice of drafts from Mr. Bingham , to the amount of one hundred thousand more . If you re- duce us to bankruptcy ...
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... drafts ; and the cargoes sent to the com- missioners by the committees have some of them been trea- cherously run away with by the seamen , or taken by the enemy , or , when arrived , have been hitherto applied to- wards the payment of ...
... drafts ; and the cargoes sent to the com- missioners by the committees have some of them been trea- cherously run away with by the seamen , or taken by the enemy , or , when arrived , have been hitherto applied to- wards the payment of ...
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... drafts : but as that has not been done , and the gentlemen ( except Mr. Lee for a few weeks ) have not incurred any ... draft for interest , after our funds were out , would have weighed with me against the payment of more money to those ...
... drafts : but as that has not been done , and the gentlemen ( except Mr. Lee for a few weeks ) have not incurred any ... draft for interest , after our funds were out , would have weighed with me against the payment of more money to those ...
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... drafts on me , to ask for more money than is required to pay our bills for interest . I must protest those I have advice of from Martinico and New Orleans ( even if they were drawn by permission of congress ) for want of money ; and I ...
... drafts on me , to ask for more money than is required to pay our bills for interest . I must protest those I have advice of from Martinico and New Orleans ( even if they were drawn by permission of congress ) for want of money ; and I ...
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... drafts , part of the three hundred and sixty thousand livres drawn for on the 9th of June : but when I ask for money to pay them , I must mention that as they were drawn to pur- chase military stores , an abatement equal to the value ...
... drafts , part of the three hundred and sixty thousand livres drawn for on the 9th of June : but when I ask for money to pay them , I must mention that as they were drawn to pur- chase military stores , an abatement equal to the value ...
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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.