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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... grant - Petition to Congress to be indemnified for losses in consequence of the failure of the Walpole grant . 341 TO CAPTAIN PAUL JONES , MARCH IST • Capt . xvi Contents of Volume XII.
... grant - Petition to Congress to be indemnified for losses in consequence of the failure of the Walpole grant . 341 TO CAPTAIN PAUL JONES , MARCH IST • Capt . xvi Contents of Volume XII.
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... grant of a small tract of land in their western country , which might have been of use and some honor to my pos- terity . And I cannot but still think they will do something of the kind for me , whenever they shall be pleased to take my ...
... grant of a small tract of land in their western country , which might have been of use and some honor to my pos- terity . And I cannot but still think they will do something of the kind for me , whenever they shall be pleased to take my ...
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... grant that not only the love of liberty , but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man , may per- vade all the nations of the earth , so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface , and say , This is my country . Your ...
... grant that not only the love of liberty , but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man , may per- vade all the nations of the earth , so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface , and say , This is my country . Your ...
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... Grant , Esq . When paid please to credit my account with it . I have only the first volume of Bower's History of Popes . I hear a second is published ; please to send it bound , dark sprinkled , filleted , and lettered . VOL . XII ...
... Grant , Esq . When paid please to credit my account with it . I have only the first volume of Bower's History of Popes . I hear a second is published ; please to send it bound , dark sprinkled , filleted , and lettered . VOL . XII ...
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... grant success . I am , my dear brother , yours most affectionately , B. FRANKLIN . ' I found Whytt's experiments are approved and recommended by Dr. Mead . DEAR BROTHER : -With regard to our father's estate I can only so far inform you ...
... grant success . I am , my dear brother , yours most affectionately , B. FRANKLIN . ' I found Whytt's experiments are approved and recommended by Dr. Mead . DEAR BROTHER : -With regard to our father's estate I can only so far inform you ...
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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.