| Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 332 Seiten
...And the sexton tolled the bell." Prom Franklin.—" You are a member of Parliament, and one of the 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 stained with the blood of your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 Seiten
...distribute among the American wounded and the wives and mothers of the killed. PHILADA, July 5, 1775. "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... | |
| David Hume - 1888 - 486 Seiten
...North's ministry, received from his old friend the following letter :— •PhilacK July 5, 1775. ' 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... | |
| 1888 - 536 Seiten
...letter several years ago among a lot of waste paper. It reads as follows : PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 1775. Mr. Strahan. You are a member of Parliament, and one...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our town and murder our people. Look upon your hands. They are stained with the blood of your... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...algebra. .... LONDON, 19 September 1772. B. FRANKLIN. TO WILLIAM STRAHAN, AFTER THE WAR HAD BEGUN. MR. 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 of your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 Seiten
...Englishman, a printer, who had been one of his oldest and best friends in London : — " MR. STKAHAN : 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... | |
| John Torrey Morse - 1889 - 454 Seiten
...England as he did the good Dr. Priestley. The letter to Strahan of July 5, 1775, is famous : — " 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... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 Seiten
...first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia. . . . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN, AFTER THE WAR HAD BEGUN. MR. 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 of your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 Seiten
...feelings is shown by the letter he wrote, a few weeks later, to one of his closest friends in England : "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 stained with the blood of your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 Seiten
...letter he wrote, a few weeks later, to one of his closest friends in England : " Mr. StraTian: — 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... | |
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