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... Life of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 174von Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 224 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel G. Drake - 1859 - 794 Seiten
...counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We arc, however, not the less obliged by your kind oflvr, though we decline accepting it: and to show our grateful...instruct them in all We know, and make men of them." f Success of a Missionary. — Those who have attempted to Christianize the Indians complain that they... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1860 - 754 Seiten
...warriors, or counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it :...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." f Success of a Missionary. — Those who have attempted to Christianize the Indians complain that they... | |
| John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 Seiten
...warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offtr, though we decline accepting of it ; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen o1 Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct... | |
| William Leete Stone - 1865 - 600 Seiten
...warriors, or counselors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer though we decline accepting it, and...sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send in a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, instruct them in all we know and make... | |
| William Leete Stone - 1865 - 596 Seiten
...grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, instruct them in all we know and make men of them." This addition to the sachem's real speech, was doubtless one of Franklin's pleasantries. f IIPE OF... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 Seiten
...warriors, nor councillors : they were totally good for nothing... We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." When any Indians come into our towns, our people are apt to crowd round them, gaze upon them, and incommode... | |
| Paul Guesdon - 1867 - 352 Seiten
...warriors, nor counsellors: they were totally good l'or nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take grcat care of their education, inst'uct them in ail we know, and make u.en of them.'—1j. Franklin,... | |
| Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 Seiten
...warriors, nor councillors : they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." B. FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. THE WIDOW AND HER SON. THE parents of the deceased had resided in the village... | |
| Ambrose Lewis Vago - 1871 - 144 Seiten
...warriors, nor counsellors — they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.'" Mr. George Combe infers, from what he considers to be the function of the organ of Causality, that... | |
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