Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Mason Brothers, 1864 |
Inhalt
| 5 | |
| 26 | |
| 36 | |
| 67 | |
| 81 | |
| 90 | |
| 100 | |
| 125 | |
| 335 | |
| 353 | |
| 363 | |
| 388 | |
| 411 | |
| 446 | |
| 455 | |
| 479 | |
| 151 | |
| 167 | |
| 203 | |
| 248 | |
| 276 | |
| 283 | |
| 321 | |
| 486 | |
| 506 | |
| 541 | |
| 584 | |
| 598 | |
| 606 | |
| 615 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abbé Morellet affairs alliance America answer appears appointed army arrival Arthur Lee asked Beaumarchais Benjamin Franklin Bon Homme Richard Boston Britain British Captain cause character colonies commissioners committee conduct Congress conversation Count de Vergennes court desired dispatches embassador England English envoys Europe expressed favor France French friends gave gentleman Gerard give hand honor hope hundred Izard John Adams king king's letter liberty lived London Lord North Lord Shelburne Lord Stormont ment mind minister ministry Nantes nation negotiation never occasion officers opinion Oswald paper Paris Parliament Passy peace Pennsylvania person Philadelphia political pounds present proposed Ralph Izard received replied respect secret sent Serapis ship Silas Deane soon thing thought thousand tion tory treaty troops United Versailles whole William William Temple Franklin wish wrote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 668 - I behold A Rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a Man: So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man
Seite 649 - sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting sun. ' 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
Seite 642 - we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may, hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Seite 36 - not when we must. I say we must necessarily, undo these violent oppressive acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will, in the end, repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Seite 641 - That, henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Seite 74 - their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 650 - 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. 1 "* The
Seite 362 - 1777) on which Congress resolved " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation,
Seite 399 - axe is best.'' For something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being