 | Benjamin Rush - 1875 - 80 páginas
...Assembly, to tell one half of our legislators, what the other half says. In short, unless the stream of importation could be turned from this to other colonies,...language, and even our government will become precarious." Sparks Works of Franklin VII, pp. 71,-ttJ. APPENDIX. The German Farmers of Pennsylvania, have once... | |
 | William Beidelman - 1898 - 278 páginas
...importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will,...language, and even our government will become precarious." Some of the adverse criticisms in the foregoing letter are manifestly unjust ; but as they were made... | |
 | Pennsylvania-German Society - 1900 - 638 páginas
...colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon outnumber up, that all the advantages we will have, will in my opinion, be not able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious."65 The wisest mortals are sometimes short-sighted and Dr. Franklin must be allowed a place... | |
 | Karl Frederick Geiser - 1901 - 154 páginas
...unless the stream of importation can be turned from this to the other colonies * * * * they will soon outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will,...language, and even our Government will become precarious." 38 A manuscript pamphlet in the Franklin Library at Philadelphia, supposed to have been written by... | |
 | 1901 - 710 páginas
...propose, they will soon outnumber us, so that all the advantages we will have will, in my opinion, not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious." Franklin's prejudice seems to have influenced our first executives. Among the early members of corporation... | |
 | Albert Bernhardt Faust - 1909 - 684 páginas
...language was popularly looked upon as ignorance. L . other half say. In short, unless the stream of importation could be turned from this to other colonies,...language, and even our government will become precarious." One of the earliest independents in American politics was Jacob Leisler, the German governor of New... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 páginas
...In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, . . . they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages...language, and even our government will become precarious. . . . Yet I am not for refusing to admit them entirely into our Colonies. All that seems to me necessary... | |
 | Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich - 1912 - 900 páginas
...colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon outnumber us, that all the advantages we will have will in my opinion, be not able to preserve our...language, and even our government will become precarious.' Franklin's apprehensions concerning the Legislature of Pennsylvania were all but justified at the convention... | |
 | Mary Clark Barnes, Lemuel Call Barnes - 1913 - 180 páginas
...colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon outnumber us, that all the advantages we will have will, in my opinion, be not able to preserve...language, and even our government will become precarious." Considering the honor universally accorded our citizens of German origin to-day, this record of the... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1915 - 622 páginas
...times alarmed for the safety of the colony. Franklin, in 1753, expressed the fear that "we will not be able to preserve our language and even our government will become precarious." Two years later, Dr. Douglass was apprehensive that Pennsylvania would "degenerate into a foreign colony... | |
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In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will, in my opinion, be not able to preserve our language, and... 
