 We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan, that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats.  The Monthly repository (and review).1817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Robert Finlay - 1904 - 46 Seiten
...improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy, the discovery of a plan which will induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats." It was in the year 1780 that Franklin wrote these words7!illd Ms language seems to imply that the remedy... | |
 | 1905 - 858 Seiten
...judgment of tbe mission and performance of the sentence. Imperial Diet, all the other sovereignties. see in moral, philosophy; the discovery of a plan that would induce uud oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats. When will... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 132 Seiten
...WARS ARE MISFORTUNES [Written in 1780.] We make daily great improvements in natural — there is one I wish to see in moral — philosophy: the discovery...convinced that even successful wars at length become misfortunes to those who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not seeing... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 Seiten
...WARS ARE MISFORTUNES [Written in 1780.] We make daily great improvements in natural — there is one I wish to see in moral — philosophy: the discovery...convinced that even successful wars at length become misfortunes to those who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not seeing... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 Seiten
...WARS ARE MISFORTUNES [Written in 1780.] We make daily great improvements in natural — there is one I wish to see in moral — philosophy: the discovery...convinced that even successful wars at length become misfortunes to those who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not seeing... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1906 - 616 Seiten
...improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral, philosophy, — the discovery of a plan which would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes...sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this?" Fourteen years later came the Jay Treaty between the United States and England, under which the disputed... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1906 - 66 Seiten
...Grenville. As early as 1780 Franklin writes, "We make daily great improvements in Natural, there is one I wish to see in Moral, Philosophy — the discovery...nations to settle their disputes without first cutting each other's throats." His wish was realized in the Jay Treaty of 1794, from which modern arbitration... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 688 Seiten
...Natural, there is one I wish to see in Moral Philosophy ; the Discovery of a Plan, that would induce & oblige Nations to settle their Disputes without first...another's Throats. When will human Reason be sufficiently improv'd to see the Advantage of this! When will Men be convinc'd, that even successful Wars at length... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 676 Seiten
...continues his Experiments with Success. We make daily great Improvements in Natural, there is one I wish to see in Moral Philosophy ; the Discovery of a Plan, that would induce & oblige Nations to settle their Disputes without first Cutting one another's Throats. When will human... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1907 - 822 Seiten
...Grenville. As early as 1780 Franklin writes: "We make daily great improvements in Natural, there is one I wish to see in Moral, Philosophy — the discovery...nations to settle their disputes without first cutting each other's throats." His wish was realized in the Jay Treaty of 1794, from which modern arbitration... | |
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