The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... acquaint them that their being placed , when they arrive , is a great uncertainty , and that the voyage being long , expensive , and hazardous , I counsel them not to undertake it . This honest gentle- man's zeal is not to be ...
... acquaint them that their being placed , when they arrive , is a great uncertainty , and that the voyage being long , expensive , and hazardous , I counsel them not to undertake it . This honest gentle- man's zeal is not to be ...
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... acquainted him that you are rather overstocked with officers , and that his obtaining employ- ment in your army is an uncertainty , but his zeal for the American cause is too great for any discouragements I can lay before him , and he ...
... acquainted him that you are rather overstocked with officers , and that his obtaining employ- ment in your army is an uncertainty , but his zeal for the American cause is too great for any discouragements I can lay before him , and he ...
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... acquainted the minister for foreign affairs with my appointment , and communicated to him , as usual a copy of my credential letter , on which a day was named for my reception . A fit of the gout prevented my attendance at that time ...
... acquainted the minister for foreign affairs with my appointment , and communicated to him , as usual a copy of my credential letter , on which a day was named for my reception . A fit of the gout prevented my attendance at that time ...
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... acquaint you thus early that I shall be obliged to protest his bills . I have just obtained from his majesty , orders to the government of Guadaloupe , to make reasonable reparation to captain Giddins of New- burg , for the loss of this ...
... acquaint you thus early that I shall be obliged to protest his bills . I have just obtained from his majesty , orders to the government of Guadaloupe , to make reasonable reparation to captain Giddins of New- burg , for the loss of this ...
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... acquainted me from time to time , that the favorable moment was not yet come , I re- ceived instead of the subscription , a new set of propositions , among the terms of which were an additional one per cent . and a patent from congress ...
... acquainted me from time to time , that the favorable moment was not yet come , I re- ceived instead of the subscription , a new set of propositions , among the terms of which were an additional one per cent . and a patent from congress ...
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Halaman 401 - Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, nor Counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the...
Halaman 401 - But you who are wise must know, that different Nations have different Conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our Ideas of this Kind of Education happen not to be the same with yours.
Halaman 182 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Halaman 181 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and Fast Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean...
Halaman 180 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut...
Halaman 193 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Halaman 181 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Halaman 180 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Halaman 433 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.