| John Keane - 2003 - 670 Seiten
...letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin to his son-in-law Richard Bache, dated September 30, 1774: The bearer Mr Thomas Paine is very well recommended...goes to Pennsylvania with a view of settling there. If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or... | |
| Neil Baldwin - 2005 - 270 Seiten
...stroke of spelling perhaps providing the stimulus for Thomas to adapt the change he kept henceforth— "is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy young man," Franklin wrote. "He goes to Pennsylvania with a view of settling there. I request you to give him your... | |
| Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 Seiten
...men in the New World, including his son-in-law, Richard Bache ("Beech"): The bearer Mr Thomas Pain is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy...goes to Pennsylvania with a view of settling there. If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or... | |
| Mary Agnes Best - 1927 - 496 Seiten
...most desirable type of emigrant he considered him and said as much to his son-in-law, Richard Bache: "The bearer, Mr. Thomas Paine, is very well recommended...worthy young man. He goes to Pennsylvania with a view to settling there. I request you to give him your best advice and countenance, as he is quite a stranger... | |
| Paul Foster - 1967 - 84 Seiten
...FLESH! CAPTAIN. MORE SAIL! LET 'EM BUST WIDE OPEN! (Main area. Read gently with calm measure:) OLD MAN. The bearer, Mr. Thomas Paine, is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy young (PAINE'S body draped in Union Jack on deck. A cloth chute down side of ship.) MATE. Captain, they're... | |
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