The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, Volumen 12G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1904 |
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... England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , NOVEMBER 23D Sends a fireplace to the Duke of Argyle . To J. READ , December 5th Rebukes him for his inhumanity to a creditor . 239 241 • 242 PAGE 1749 TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , APRIL 29TH Mr. Read's Contents ...
... England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , NOVEMBER 23D Sends a fireplace to the Duke of Argyle . To J. READ , December 5th Rebukes him for his inhumanity to a creditor . 239 241 • 242 PAGE 1749 TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , APRIL 29TH Mr. Read's Contents ...
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... England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN 276 Letter of condolence on the death of a member of his family . 1759 TO DR . WILLIAM HEBBRDEN , JUNE 7TH Electrical experiments with tourmalins . 1761 TO MISS MARy Stevenson , AUGUST 10TH • The ...
... England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN 276 Letter of condolence on the death of a member of his family . 1759 TO DR . WILLIAM HEBBRDEN , JUNE 7TH Electrical experiments with tourmalins . 1761 TO MISS MARy Stevenson , AUGUST 10TH • The ...
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... England as agent - The colonies in- debted to him - Commends the peace . Το MAY 9TH • · TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , JUNE 28TH Indian hostilities renewed - Bad report from England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , AUGUST 8TH • TO WILLIAM Strahan ...
... England as agent - The colonies in- debted to him - Commends the peace . Το MAY 9TH • · TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , JUNE 28TH Indian hostilities renewed - Bad report from England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN , AUGUST 8TH • TO WILLIAM Strahan ...
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... England . To shorten the work , as well as for other reasons , I omit all facts and transactions that may not have a tendency to benefit the young reader by showing him from my example , and my success in emerging from 1788 ] 7 Benjamin ...
... England . To shorten the work , as well as for other reasons , I omit all facts and transactions that may not have a tendency to benefit the young reader by showing him from my example , and my success in emerging from 1788 ] 7 Benjamin ...
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... England , before his appointment to France , in which services I and Mr. Bollan coöperated with him , and have had no such allowance ; and , since his return , he has been very properly rewarded with a good place , as well as my friend ...
... England , before his appointment to France , in which services I and Mr. Bollan coöperated with him , and have had no such allowance ; and , since his return , he has been very properly rewarded with a good place , as well as my friend ...
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affairs affectionately America April Arthur Lee August Bache Benjamin bill Boston Britain British colonies Committee Congress copy Count de Vergennes court David Hartley DEAR FRIEND:-I dear sir DEAR SIR:-I debts decease December Earl of Hillsborough enclosed England English school esteem Europe favor February France give grant honor hope humble servant Jane Mecom January Jonathan Williams July June Kinnersley labor lands language late letter liberty Majesty Majesty's March memorialists ment mention nation November obliged occasion October opinion paid papers Parliament payment peace Pennsylvania persons Plantations pleasure pounds sterling present printed proposed province of Pennsylvania quit-rents received respect Richard Bache salary Sarah Bache scholars sent September ships Thomas Cushing thousand pounds tion tongue trade trustees VIII wages William Franklin WILLIAM STRAHAN PHILADELPHIA William Temple Franklin wish write
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Página 224 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 163 - God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man, may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, This is my country!
Página 186 - I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho...
Página 56 - The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it.
Página 161 - Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.* Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov.
Página 132 - Their support is founded in the depravity of such minds, as have not been mended by religion, nor improved by good education; "There is a Lust in Man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his Neighbour's Shame." Hence; "On Eagle's Wings immortal Scandals fly, While virtuous Actions are but born and die.
Página 79 - To form their style, they should be put on writing letters to each other, making abstracts of what they read, or writing the same things in their own words; telling or writing stories lately read, in their own expressions.
Página 200 - Franklin is dead ! The genius, that freed America and poured a flood of light over Europe, has returned to the bosom of the Divinity. " The sage whom two worlds claim as their own, the man for whom the history of science and the history of empires contend with each other, held, without doubt, a high rank in the human race.
Página 187 - PS Had not your College some Present of Books from the King of France? Please to let me know, if you had an Expectation given you of more, and the Nature of that Expectation? I have a Reason for the Enquiry.
Página 182 - I received the letter you did me the honor of writing to me, and am much obliged by your kind present of a book.