The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... occasion . Anecdote of the count de Nord ( afterwards the emperor Paul ) and the prince Bariatinski - and a ready mode of discharging the forms of diplomatic etiquette . · 242 Mr. Laurens writes from Ostend , concerning earl Cornwallis ...
... occasion . Anecdote of the count de Nord ( afterwards the emperor Paul ) and the prince Bariatinski - and a ready mode of discharging the forms of diplomatic etiquette . · 242 Mr. Laurens writes from Ostend , concerning earl Cornwallis ...
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... occasions we made preparation for engage- ment , the good order and readiness with which it was done , being far beyond my expectations , and I believe equal to any thing of the kind in the best ships of the king's fleet . He seems to ...
... occasions we made preparation for engage- ment , the good order and readiness with which it was done , being far beyond my expectations , and I believe equal to any thing of the kind in the best ships of the king's fleet . He seems to ...
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... occasion so much postponing and delay , that corres- pondence languishes , occasions are lost , and the business is always behind - hand . I have mentioned the difficulty of being often and long enough together : this is considerable ...
... occasion so much postponing and delay , that corres- pondence languishes , occasions are lost , and the business is always behind - hand . I have mentioned the difficulty of being often and long enough together : this is considerable ...
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... occasions . We have already paid of congress drafts , to re- turned officers , eighty - two thousand two hundred and eleven livres , and we know not how much more of that kind we have to pay , because the committee have never let us ...
... occasions . We have already paid of congress drafts , to re- turned officers , eighty - two thousand two hundred and eleven livres , and we know not how much more of that kind we have to pay , because the committee have never let us ...
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... occasion of repeating the assurances I am instructed to give , of the grateful sentiments of congress , and their determined resolution to fulfil religiously their engagements . Much pains is con- stantly taken by the enemy to weaken ...
... occasion of repeating the assurances I am instructed to give , of the grateful sentiments of congress , and their determined resolution to fulfil religiously their engagements . Much pains is con- stantly taken by the enemy to weaken ...
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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.