| 1855 - 902 Seiten
...recently, a characteristic note from Benjamin Franklin brought one pound and nineteen shillings. It ran : " Mr. Strahan — You are a member of Parliament, and...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are stained with the blood of your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 Seiten
...serious) from Franklin to Strahan, written some eighteen years afterwards : Philad., July 5, 1775. MB. STRAHAN : You are a Member of Parliament, and one...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ; — • they are stained with the blood... | |
| 1855 - 594 Seiten
...Franklin brought one pound nineteen shillings. It ran: — LITERARY MISCELLANIES. "Mr. Strahan : You are s Member of Parliament, and one of that majority which...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are stained with the blood of your... | |
| William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 Seiten
...to his old friend in England, Mr. Strahan, the king's printer : — ' PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 1775. ' Mr. STRAHAN : — You are a member of parliament,...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are signed with the blood of your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...very loving brother, 6. FRANKLIN. TO WILLIAM STRAHAHT.* MR. STRAHAN, • Philadelphia, 5 July, 1775. You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority,...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands, they are stained with the blood of your... | |
| George Willis - 1856 - 112 Seiten
...by the following characteristic and manly avowal. Mr. Strahan,—Yon are a member of Parliament, and of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People.—1xiok upon your hands !—They are stained with the blood... | |
| Willis's Current notes - 1856 - 110 Seiten
...and manly avowal. Philadelphia, July 5, 1775. Mr. Stiahan, — You are a member of Parliament, and of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Ixjok upon your hands ! — They are stained with the blood... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 Seiten
...parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are signed with the blood of your relations. You and I were long friends : — you are now my enemy, and... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 Seiten
...that Franklin subscribed this Petition to the King he wrote as follows to a former friend in London. " Mr. Strahan : " You are a Member of Parliament and one of that ma" jority which has doomed my country to destruction. " You have begun to burn our towns and murder... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 424 Seiten
...that Franklin subscribed this Petition to the King he wrote as follows to a former friend in London. " Mr. Strahan : " You are a Member of Parliament and one of that ma" jority which has doomed my country to destruction. " You have begun to burn our towns and murder... | |
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