 | Benjamin Franklin - 1833 - 322 páginas
...has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's * .Miss Dorothea Blount. shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 páginas
...has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty Island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous,... | |
 | 1883 - 990 páginas
...size of North Carolina. It is, as Franklin, in 1763, wrote to Mary Stevenson in London, " that petty island which, compared to America, is but a stepping-stone...enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry." A considerable portion of it is under water, or water-soaked a good part of the year, and I suppose... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 páginas
...has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty Island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 páginas
...has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty Island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous,... | |
 | - 1883 - 980 páginas
...size of North Carolina. It is, as Franklin, in 1763, wrote to Mary Stevenson in London, " that petty island which, compared to America, is but a stepping-stone...enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry." A considerable portion of it is under water, or water-soaked a good part of the year, and I suppose... | |
 | 1883 - 994 páginas
...Dr. Franklin, writing that same year to Mary Stevenson in London, spoke of England as '• that petty island which, compared to America, is but a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above-water to keep one's shoes dry." The far-seeing French statesmen of the period looked at the matter... | |
 | Josiah Strong - 1885 - 264 páginas
...is eventually to give its civilization to mankind is not based on mere numbers — China forbid ! I look forward to what the world has never yet seen...relative importance among Anglo-Saxon peoples when hej "pretty island" is the home of only one-twentieth part of that race. With the wider distribution... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 páginas
...Dr. Franklin, writing that same year to Mary Stevenson in London, spoke of England as " that petty island which, compared to America, is but a steppingstone...enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry." The far-seeing French statesmen of the period looked at the matter in the same way. Choiseul, the Primeminister... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 páginas
...Dr. Franklin, writing that same year to Mary Stevenson in London, spoke of England as " that petty island which, compared to America, is but .a steppingstone...enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry." The far-seeing French statesmen of the period looked at the matter in the same way. Choiseul, the Primeminister... | |
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Of all the enviable things England has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty Island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry... 
