The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... immediately make the proper inquiries , and give me infor- mation . In the mean time , I find it is generally supposed here , that I am sent to negociate , and that opinion appears to give great pleasure , if I can judge by the extreme ...
... immediately make the proper inquiries , and give me infor- mation . In the mean time , I find it is generally supposed here , that I am sent to negociate , and that opinion appears to give great pleasure , if I can judge by the extreme ...
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... immediately as an officer : but I wish and hope your excellency may find a better situation for him , and that he will be an useful officer . He has the advantage of under- standing English , and will soon speak it intelligibly . He ...
... immediately as an officer : but I wish and hope your excellency may find a better situation for him , and that he will be an useful officer . He has the advantage of under- standing English , and will soon speak it intelligibly . He ...
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... immediately acquainted the minister for foreign affairs with my appointment , and communicated to him , as usual a copy of my credential letter , on which a day was named for my reception . A fit of the gout prevented my attendance at ...
... immediately acquainted the minister for foreign affairs with my appointment , and communicated to him , as usual a copy of my credential letter , on which a day was named for my reception . A fit of the gout prevented my attendance at ...
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... immediately consider this important affair , and give me such instructions upon it as they may judge proper . With this I send a copy of the memorial . 1 During the cruise a mortal quarrel arose between the 1779 . 41 WITH CONGRESS .
... immediately consider this important affair , and give me such instructions upon it as they may judge proper . With this I send a copy of the memorial . 1 During the cruise a mortal quarrel arose between the 1779 . 41 WITH CONGRESS .
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... immediately furnished . Three millions of livres were , however , granted me , with which , after deducting what will be necessary to pay the interest bills and other late drafts of congress , I could not venture on ordering more than ...
... immediately furnished . Three millions of livres were , however , granted me , with which , after deducting what will be necessary to pay the interest bills and other late drafts of congress , I could not venture on ordering more than ...
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Page 401 - Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, nor Counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the...
Page 401 - But you who are wise must know, that different Nations have different Conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our Ideas of this Kind of Education happen not to be the same with yours.
Page 182 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 181 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and Fast Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 180 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut...
Page 193 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 181 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 180 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 433 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.