The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... thing in his power to make the voyage comfortable to me ; and I was much pleased with what I saw of his conduct as an officer , when on supposed occasions we made preparation for engage- ment , the good order and readiness with which it ...
... thing in his power to make the voyage comfortable to me ; and I was much pleased with what I saw of his conduct as an officer , when on supposed occasions we made preparation for engage- ment , the good order and readiness with which it ...
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... thing fit for immediate service , were embarked in a frigate from Havre , which is sailed : the rest were to go in another frigate of thirty - six guns . GENTLEMEN , To the same . Paris , January 4 , 1777 . I ARRIVED here about two ...
... thing fit for immediate service , were embarked in a frigate from Havre , which is sailed : the rest were to go in another frigate of thirty - six guns . GENTLEMEN , To the same . Paris , January 4 , 1777 . I ARRIVED here about two ...
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... thing is done without his consent , the difficulty of being often and long enough together , the different opinions , and the time consumed in debating them , the interruption of new applicants in the time by meeting , 12 July , SECRET ...
... thing is done without his consent , the difficulty of being often and long enough together , the different opinions , and the time consumed in debating them , the interruption of new applicants in the time by meeting , 12 July , SECRET ...
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... thing of the kind . War in Germany seems to be inevitable , and this occa- sioning great borrowings of money in Holland and else- where , by the powers concerned , makes it more difficult for us to succeed in ours . When we engaged to ...
... thing of the kind . War in Germany seems to be inevitable , and this occa- sioning great borrowings of money in Holland and else- where , by the powers concerned , makes it more difficult for us to succeed in ours . When we engaged to ...
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... thing to do with it extremely inconve- nient . Commercial agents have indeed been appointed by Mr. William Lee , but they and the captains are continually writing for my opinion or orders , or leave to do this and 8 that , by which much ...
... thing to do with it extremely inconve- nient . Commercial agents have indeed been appointed by Mr. William Lee , but they and the captains are continually writing for my opinion or orders , or leave to do this and 8 that , by which much ...
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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.