Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1889 - 428 páginas |
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... paris . In a field by the roadside he wrote , with plaster , THIS HAS BEEN PLASTERED ; and soon the brilliant green of the letters carried the lesson to every passer - by . In 1743 Franklin broached the idea of an acad- emy ; but the ...
... paris . In a field by the roadside he wrote , with plaster , THIS HAS BEEN PLASTERED ; and soon the brilliant green of the letters carried the lesson to every passer - by . In 1743 Franklin broached the idea of an acad- emy ; but the ...
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... Paris at the sign- ing of the treaty of peace with England , a circum- stance the more noteworthy since at that time the French court was in mourning.1 It appears that Franklin for a time entertained a purpose of drawing up an " answer ...
... Paris at the sign- ing of the treaty of peace with England , a circum- stance the more noteworthy since at that time the French court was in mourning.1 It appears that Franklin for a time entertained a purpose of drawing up an " answer ...
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... Paris . Beaumarchais alone con- ducted its affairs , the most extraordinary merchant surely who ever engaged in extensive commerce ! The capital was secretly furnished by the Spanish and French governments ; about $ 400,000 the firm had ...
... Paris . Beaumarchais alone con- ducted its affairs , the most extraordinary merchant surely who ever engaged in extensive commerce ! The capital was secretly furnished by the Spanish and French governments ; about $ 400,000 the firm had ...
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... Paris , a gentleman with whom his friendship dated back to his French trip in 1767 , a long and cheering letter full of gratifying intelligence con- cerning the disposition of the court , and throwing out a number of such suggestions ...
... Paris , a gentleman with whom his friendship dated back to his French trip in 1767 , a long and cheering letter full of gratifying intelligence con- cerning the disposition of the court , and throwing out a number of such suggestions ...
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... Paris , where he arrived just before the close of the year . The excitement which his arrival in the French capital created was unmistakable evidence of the estimate set by Europe upon his abilities . Some persons in England endeavored ...
... Paris , where he arrived just before the close of the year . The excitement which his arrival in the French capital created was unmistakable evidence of the estimate set by Europe upon his abilities . Some persons in England endeavored ...
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Página 203 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 405 - 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: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Página 36 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we should do freely and generously.
Página 6 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 28 - I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho...
Página 44 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, and tho' they did not much like treating out of the provinces; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defense and other important general purposes.
Página 397 - I had not firmness enough to resist the unanimous desire of my country folks ; and I find myself harnessed again in their service for another year. They engrossed the prime of my life. They have eaten my flesh, and seem resolved now to pick my bones.
Página 133 - The very tails of the American sheep are so laden with wool that each has a little car or waggon on four little wheels to support and keep it from trailing on the ground.