| Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1899 - 440 Seiten
...were therefore totally good for nothing. We are however not the less 60 obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and, to show our grateful...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." 65 Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 Seiten
...counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and, to show our...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.' " In a more concrete form, too. Franklin testified to the slight value he placed upon college training.... | |
| 1899 - 1012 Seiten
...counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and, to show our grateful...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them. son William and his nephew James were properly taught, but he sent neither to a university. When William... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1900 - 190 Seiten
...less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and to show our grateful sense 66 of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 Seiten
...were therefore totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and to show our grateful...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost... | |
| Henry James Morgan, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - 1905 - 362 Seiten
...counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are not, however, the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it, and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia send us a dozen of their sons we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 Seiten
...were therefore totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and to show our grateful...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost... | |
| 1914 - 588 Seiten
...good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged for your kind offer, tho we decline to accept it; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen...instruct them in all we know and make men of them." (Franklin's Autobiography.) — St. Louis Christian Advocate. Knowledge at a Low Level Knowledge sometimes... | |
| William Henry Maxwell - 1915 - 184 Seiten
...counselors. The kind intention of the government is, however, appreciated by the Indians. In return, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we offer to give them a thorough Indian education, and to make men of them. V. Forms for headings of letters.... | |
| 1921 - 1202 Seiten
...short, they were totally good for nothing. "If the gentlemen of Virginia," said the Indians in reply, "will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." They believed that the glory of the young man was in his strength, in his skill in hunting and doing... | |
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