 We are, however, not 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 will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them...  Select Pieces - Seite 44von Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1900 - 132 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 - 249 Seiten
...are, however, not 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...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 - 266 Seiten
...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...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.' That was a delightful touch, in the concluding sentence, and one would give a good deal to have seen... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 249 Seiten
...are, however, not 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...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
...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 of Virginia...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... | |
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