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... dated Passy , March , 1781 . 12 1781 . I HAD the honor of receiving on the 13th of last month your Excellency's letter of the 1st of January , together with the instructions of November 28th and December 27th , a copy of those to ...
... dated Passy , March , 1781 . 12 1781 . I HAD the honor of receiving on the 13th of last month your Excellency's letter of the 1st of January , together with the instructions of November 28th and December 27th , a copy of those to ...
Pagina 10
... dated Passy , March , 1781 . 12 I must now beg leave to say something relating to myself ; a subject with which I have not often troubled the Congress . I have passed my seventy - fifth year , and I find that the long and severe fit of ...
... dated Passy , March , 1781 . 12 I must now beg leave to say something relating to myself ; a subject with which I have not often troubled the Congress . I have passed my seventy - fifth year , and I find that the long and severe fit of ...
Pagina 12
... dated at Madrid , April 25th , 1781 , Mr. Jay said : " I perceive Dr. Franklin desires to retire . This circumstance calls upon me to assure Congress , that I have reason to be perfectly satisfied with his conduct towards me , and that ...
... dated at Madrid , April 25th , 1781 , Mr. Jay said : " I perceive Dr. Franklin desires to retire . This circumstance calls upon me to assure Congress , that I have reason to be perfectly satisfied with his conduct towards me , and that ...
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... dated Passy , Aug. 20 , 1781 . Digges , a Maryland merchant , residing in London , who pretended to be a zealous Ameri- can , and to have much concern for our poor people in the English prisons , drew upon me for their re- lief at ...
... dated Passy , Aug. 20 , 1781 . Digges , a Maryland merchant , residing in London , who pretended to be a zealous Ameri- can , and to have much concern for our poor people in the English prisons , drew upon me for their re- lief at ...
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... dated Passy , 14 May , 1781 . You are a very good correspondent , which I do not deserve , as I am a bad one . The truth is , I have too much business upon my hands , a great deal of it foreign to my function as a min- ister , which ...
... dated Passy , 14 May , 1781 . You are a very good correspondent , which I do not deserve , as I am a bad one . The truth is , I have too much business upon my hands , a great deal of it foreign to my function as a min- ister , which ...
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Pagina 261 - I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, "You are young, and have the world before you ; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
Pagina 490 - 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.
Pagina 40 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Pagina 387 - MR. PRESIDENT, The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it.
Pagina 261 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Pagina 320 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Pagina 470 - I Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia, Printer, late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of France, now President of the State of Pennsylvania, do make and declare my last Will and Testament as follows.
Pagina 96 - And the next day I received the following answer. FROM COUNT DE VERGENNES TO B. FRANKLIN. Translation. " Versailles, 5 May, 1782. "SIR, " I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me the 4th instant, as also those which accompanied it.
Pagina 365 - ... and may prevail with some readers, you will not succeed so as to change the general sentiments of mankind on that subject, and the consequence of printing this piece will be a great deal of odium drawn upon yourself, mischief to you, and no benefit to others. He that spits against the wind, spits in his own face.
Pagina 388 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live. the more convincing proofs I see of this truth : That GOD goverra 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.