| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 Seiten
...friends. To William MR. STRAHAN, ted* Phi! adJi- You are a member of Parliament, and one phia, 5 July, 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 stained with the blood of your relations ! You and I were long... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 656 Seiten
...— " Mr. Strahan, — You are a member of parliament, and are of that majority which has doomed mj 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 relatives ! You aaJ I were long... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1875 - 542 Seiten
...his remarkable letter to Mr. Strahan, of the British Parliament ! " PHILADELPHIA, 5 July, 1775. " MB. STRAHAN, — You are a 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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 652 Seiten
...j™- through whom he had formerly communicated with Lord North, he wrote, on the fifth of July : " You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority...destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! they are stained with the blood of your relations ! You and I were long... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 Seiten
...July. through whom he had formerly communicated with Lord North, he wrote, on the fifth of July : " You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority...destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! they are stained with the blood of your relations ! You and I were long... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 Seiten
...friend in London,1 — MR. STRAIIAN, — You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority who 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 relations. You and I were long... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 Seiten
...foreign mercenaries. At this stage, the American philosopher wrote to a former friend in London,1 — ME. STRAHAN, — You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority who has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people.... | |
| George Bancroft - 1878 - 648 Seiten
...July, through whom he had formerly communicated with Lord North, he wrote, on the fifth of July : " You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority...destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! they are stained with the blood of your relations ! You and I were long... | |
| 1880 - 588 Seiten
...written while fresh from England, in 1775, to his old friend, William Strahan, the King's printer : ' Mr. Strahan, you are a Member of Parliament, and one...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to bum our homes and murder our people. Look at your hands ; they are stained with the blood of your relations.... | |
| Henry Stevens - 1881 - 108 Seiten
...Franklin's famous letter to his friend Strahan the printer : " Mr STRAHAN, Philado. July 5, 1775. " You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that majority...Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands ! — They are stained with the Blood of your Relations ! — You... | |
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