Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2Mason Brothers, 1864 |
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Pagina 10
... Europe could materially forward . He consented to delay his departure the more willingly because Arthur Lee , who was to succeed him as agent for Massachusetts , was on the continent making the tour of Europe . His pen and his influence ...
... Europe could materially forward . He consented to delay his departure the more willingly because Arthur Lee , who was to succeed him as agent for Massachusetts , was on the continent making the tour of Europe . His pen and his influence ...
Pagina 39
... Europe held in high estimation for his knowledge and wisdom , and ranked with our Boyles and Newtons ; who was an honor , not to the English nation only , but to human nature ! I found it harder to stand this extravagant compliment than ...
... Europe held in high estimation for his knowledge and wisdom , and ranked with our Boyles and Newtons ; who was an honor , not to the English nation only , but to human nature ! I found it harder to stand this extravagant compliment than ...
Pagina 72
... Europe to America might be shortened . He conceived an idea still more practically useful , which has since given rise to a little library of nautical works , and conferred unmerited honor upon a naval charlatan - Maury . This idea was ...
... Europe to America might be shortened . He conceived an idea still more practically useful , which has since given rise to a little library of nautical works , and conferred unmerited honor upon a naval charlatan - Maury . This idea was ...
Pagina 101
... Europe and America ; promoting the circulation of the Continental money , and drafting instructions for the generals in the field . He was still an active member of the Com- mittee of Safety ; and , as if these duties were not enough ...
... Europe and America ; promoting the circulation of the Continental money , and drafting instructions for the generals in the field . He was still an active member of the Com- mittee of Safety ; and , as if these duties were not enough ...
Pagina 107
... EUROPE ! " To be always run- ning three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition , waiting four or five months for an answer , which , when obtained , requires five or six more to explain it in , will in a few years be looked ...
... EUROPE ! " To be always run- ning three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition , waiting four or five months for an answer , which , when obtained , requires five or six more to explain it in , will in a few years be looked ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbé Morellet affairs alliance America answer appears appointed army arrival Arthur Lee asked Beaumarchais Benjamin Franklin Bon Homme Richard Boston Britain British Captain cause character colonies commissioners committee conduct Congress conversation Count de Vergennes court desired dispatches embassador England English envoys Europe expressed favor France French friends gave gentleman Gerard give hand honor hope hundred Izard John Adams king king's letter liberty lived London Lord North Lord Shelburne Lord Stormont ment mind minister ministry Nantes nation negotiation never occasion officers opinion Oswald paper Paris Parliament Passy peace Pennsylvania person Philadelphia political pounds present proposed Ralph Izard received replied respect secret sent Serapis ship Silas Deane soon thing thought thousand tion tory treaty troops United Versailles whole William William Temple Franklin wish wrote young
Populaire passages
Pagina 654 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Pagina 574 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Pagina 68 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Pagina 413 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.
Pagina 34 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Pagina 604 - Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Pagina 500 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Pagina 581 - Whilst the last members were signing, Dr. FRANKLIN, looking towards the president's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish, in their art, a rising from a setting sun. "I have," said he, "often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting...
Pagina 574 - I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages.
Pagina 68 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.