 I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her....  The Writings of Benjamin Franklin - Pagina 154door Benjamin Franklin - 1906Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 pagina’s
...Edinburgh and Oxford.* Other friends, besides Mr. Strahan, regretted his departure. Mr. Hume wrote; "I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our...send back an ounce of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied ; " Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pagina’s
...remarks, till the last week, which is the reason, why I have been so late in acknowledging your favor. Mr. Russel's remarks, besides the just praises of...send back an ounce of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander Dick, who desired me to present his compliments... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pagina’s
...remarks, till the last week, which is the reason, why I have been so late in acknowledging your favor. Mr. Russel's remarks, besides the just praises of...send back an ounce of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander Dick, who desired me to present his compliments... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pagina’s
...Edinburgh and Oxford.* Other friends, besides Mr. Strahan, regretted his departure. Mr. Hume wrote; "I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our...send back an ounce of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied ; " Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 890 pagina’s
...remarks, till the last week, which is the reason, why I have been so late in acknowledging your favor. Mr. Russel's remarks, besides the just praises of...above gold ; for we take care never to send back an otince of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pagina’s
...Edinburgh and Oxford.* Other friends, besides Mr. Strahan, regretted his departure. Mr. Hume wrote; "I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our...send back an ounce of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied ; " Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pagina’s
...you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and...send back an ounce of the latter which we once lay our fingers -upon." In March of the same year he received a letter from his wife, announcing the death... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 pagina’s
...hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,—gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but yon are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great...send back an ounce of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied—" Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pagina’s
...of my days in." On hearing that Franklin was about to return to America, David Hume wrote to him: " I am very sorry that you intend soon to leave our...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 pagina’s
...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762: "I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day — "He has in no instance exhibited... | |
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