The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 5Hillard, Gray,, 1837 |
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... greater moment . I was therefore obliged to content myself with a kind of non - apparent and unacknowl- edged communication through Mr. Potter and Mr. Wood , his secretaries , who seemed to cultivate an acquaintance with me by their ...
... greater moment . I was therefore obliged to content myself with a kind of non - apparent and unacknowl- edged communication through Mr. Potter and Mr. Wood , his secretaries , who seemed to cultivate an acquaintance with me by their ...
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... greater loss to us than gain to Britain , and therefore proper to be re- pealed . But , as Britain had deemed it an equivalent for her protection , we had never applied , or proposed to apply , for such a repeal . And , if they must be ...
... greater loss to us than gain to Britain , and therefore proper to be re- pealed . But , as Britain had deemed it an equivalent for her protection , we had never applied , or proposed to apply , for such a repeal . And , if they must be ...
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... sentiments of such authority as those of our worthy friend , that the desired accom- His Philosophical Writings . - W. T. F. modation threatens to be attended with much greater difficulty than 40 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... sentiments of such authority as those of our worthy friend , that the desired accom- His Philosophical Writings . - W. T. F. modation threatens to be attended with much greater difficulty than 40 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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... greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans , and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance , and enable him to plunder at pleasure . There is scarce a king in a hundred , who would not , if he could ...
... greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans , and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance , and enable him to plunder at pleasure . There is scarce a king in a hundred , who would not , if he could ...
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... greater the honor . To bring the matter nearer home , have we not seen the greatest and most important of our offices , that of general of our armies , executed for eight years together , without the smallest salary , by a patriot whom ...
... greater the honor . To bring the matter nearer home , have we not seen the greatest and most important of our offices , that of general of our armies , executed for eight years together , without the smallest salary , by a patriot whom ...
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Abbé Abbé Nollet America appear attracted BENJAMIN FRANKLIN body bottle Britain charged clouds coating Collinson colonies common matter conduct Congress contained cork ball cushion discharged draw earth effect elec electric fluid electric matter electrical atmosphere electrical experiments electrical fire electrified equal fait finger floor force Franklin give glass globe greater hand heat honor hook igne ignis iron j'ai JAMES BOWDOIN jars Kinnersley letter lightning Lord Lord Chatham Lord Hyde Lordship magnetic melted ment metal motion natural quantity needle negative non-electric observed opinion paper Parliament passing person PETER COLLINSON phial Philadelphia piece plate pointed rod positively power of points present prime conductor quantity of electricity received repelled repulsion round Royal Society rubbed shock side silk spark standing on wax stroke sulphur suppose surface suspended thread tion touch the wire tricity tube vapors wire
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Seite 46 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Seite 161 - Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men ? we will not come up.
Seite 65 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Seite 154 - We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.
Seite 211 - A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the electrical shock and roasted by the electrical jack before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle; when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery.
Seite 154 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live. the more convincing proofs I see of this truth : That GOD goverra in the affairs of men ! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 155 - I therefore beg leave to move, That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Seite 236 - On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Plate I., Fig. 9), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass bending out of the door, and then upright twenty or thirty feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it when...
Seite 124 - GENTLEMEN, A SHIP having been fitted out from England, before the commencement of this war, to make discoveries of new countries in unknown seas, under the conduct of that most celebrated navigator...
Seite 156 - 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...