The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the Court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations, 第 1 卷Henry Colburn, 1817 |
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... Officers of State , & c . · to the Hon . John Jay , Passy , Feb. 8. 1785 . Various Matter to Mr. Small , Philadelphia , Sep. 28 , 1787 . American Taxation . - New form of Prayer -American Royalists , & c . 477 · 478 ❤ 480 Dr. Franklin ...
... Officers of State , & c . · to the Hon . John Jay , Passy , Feb. 8. 1785 . Various Matter to Mr. Small , Philadelphia , Sep. 28 , 1787 . American Taxation . - New form of Prayer -American Royalists , & c . 477 · 478 ❤ 480 Dr. Franklin ...
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... officers in it . As she appeared in great perplexity , scarce knowing where to go , I persuaded her to stay ; and I went to the general officers then commanding there , and recommended her to their protection ; which they promised and ...
... officers in it . As she appeared in great perplexity , scarce knowing where to go , I persuaded her to stay ; and I went to the general officers then commanding there , and recommended her to their protection ; which they promised and ...
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... officers from other countries , who arrived under strong recommendations , that they have been at above 100,000 livres expence to pay the charges of such officers in coming to America and returning to Europe , rather than hazard the ...
... officers from other countries , who arrived under strong recommendations , that they have been at above 100,000 livres expence to pay the charges of such officers in coming to America and returning to Europe , rather than hazard the ...
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... officers to America in expectation of em- ployment . As to my recommendation , whatever weight it might have had formerly , it has in several instances ' been so improperly employed through the too great con- fidence I had in ...
... officers to America in expectation of em- ployment . As to my recommendation , whatever weight it might have had formerly , it has in several instances ' been so improperly employed through the too great con- fidence I had in ...
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... officers returned last winter from your army , that you continued in good health . You will see by the public papers that Afterwards the Marquis de Chastellux . t } the English begin to be weary of the war 104 * PART I. PRIVATE ...
... officers returned last winter from your army , that you continued in good health . You will see by the public papers that Afterwards the Marquis de Chastellux . t } the English begin to be weary of the war 104 * PART I. PRIVATE ...
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第 139 頁 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character : he does not get his living honestly...
第 149 頁 - When I was a boy I met with a book entitled "Essays to Do Good," which I think was written by your father.* It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life, for I have always set a greater value...
第 278 頁 - As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see...
第 322 頁 - What the event will be, God only knows. But some punishment seems preparing for a people, who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution, and the best King, any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder...
第 126 頁 - At length we are in peace, God be praised, and long, very long, may it continue! All wars are follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their differences by arbitration ? Were they to do it, even by the cast of a die, it would be better than by fighting and destroying each other.
第 52 頁 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
第 150 頁 - I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man who never missed any occasion of giving instruction ; and upon this he said to me : "You are young, and have the world before you : stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
第 130 頁 - America, too, is extremely sensible of his benevolence and great beneficence towards her, and will ever revere his memory. These volumes are a proof of what I have sometimes had occasion to say, in encouraging people to undertake difficult public services, that it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a business of it.
第 280 頁 - I will not enter into any discussion of your principles, though you seem to desire it. At present I shall only give you my opinion that, though your...
第 266 頁 - Our new Constitution is now established, and has an. appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.