The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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... sail ; on the whole there is the greatest prospect that we shall be well * provided for another campaign , and much stronger than SECRET CORRESPONDENCE Oct. To James Lovell, December To Samuel Huntingdon, president of Congress, December.
... sail ; on the whole there is the greatest prospect that we shall be well * provided for another campaign , and much stronger than SECRET CORRESPONDENCE Oct. To James Lovell, December To Samuel Huntingdon, president of Congress, December.
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... sail it is said about the first of June . The marquis de la Fayette was , with some land troops , to have gone with ... sailing to America ; and Mr. Adams , who was desirous of returning soon might be accommodated with a passage in a ...
... sail it is said about the first of June . The marquis de la Fayette was , with some land troops , to have gone with ... sailing to America ; and Mr. Adams , who was desirous of returning soon might be accommodated with a passage in a ...
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... sail of their vessels within these three months . The own- ers are about to give her a consort , called the Black Princess , for whom they ask a commission . The prisoners brought in , serve to exchange our countrymen , which makes me ...
... sail of their vessels within these three months . The own- ers are about to give her a consort , called the Black Princess , for whom they ask a commission . The prisoners brought in , serve to exchange our countrymen , which makes me ...
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... sail im- mediately . But the men refusing to go till paid their shares of prize money , and sundry difficulties arising with regard to the sale and division , she has been detained thus long to my great mortification ; and I am yet ...
... sail im- mediately . But the men refusing to go till paid their shares of prize money , and sundry difficulties arising with regard to the sale and division , she has been detained thus long to my great mortification ; and I am yet ...
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... sail , refused to weigh anchor ' till paid wages , & c . she may fall in the way of the English fleet now out , or that her crew who have ever been infected with dis- order and mutiny , may carry her into England . She had on her first ...
... sail , refused to weigh anchor ' till paid wages , & c . she may fall in the way of the English fleet now out , or that her crew who have ever been infected with dis- order and mutiny , may carry her into England . She had on her first ...
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401. oldal - 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...
401. oldal - 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.
182. oldal - 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.
181. oldal - 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...
180. oldal - 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...
193. oldal - 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...
181. oldal - 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...
180. oldal - 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...
433. oldal - 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.