Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 - 449 էջ |
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... Europe , by which I thought we might be authorised to treat with Bri- tain , who , if sincerely disposed to peace , might save time and much bloodshed by treating with us directly . I also gave it as my opinion , that in the treaty to ...
... Europe , by which I thought we might be authorised to treat with Bri- tain , who , if sincerely disposed to peace , might save time and much bloodshed by treating with us directly . I also gave it as my opinion , that in the treaty to ...
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... Europe , and will draw over many families of fortune to settle under it , as soon as there is a peace . The defects that may on seven years ' trial be found in it , can be amended , when the time comes for considering them . With great ...
... Europe , and will draw over many families of fortune to settle under it , as soon as there is a peace . The defects that may on seven years ' trial be found in it , can be amended , when the time comes for considering them . With great ...
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... Europe , yourselves included , most certainly and for ever would despise us if we were weak enough to accept your insidious propositions . Our expectations of the future grandeur of America , áre not so magnificent , and therefore not ...
... Europe , yourselves included , most certainly and for ever would despise us if we were weak enough to accept your insidious propositions . Our expectations of the future grandeur of America , áre not so magnificent , and therefore not ...
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... Europe , for the expectation of unknown terms of peace to be afterwards offered to us by such a government ; —a government that has already shamefully broken all the compacts it ever made with us . This is worse than advising us to drop ...
... Europe , for the expectation of unknown terms of peace to be afterwards offered to us by such a government ; —a government that has already shamefully broken all the compacts it ever made with us . This is worse than advising us to drop ...
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... Europe , to secure their pri- soners as well as they can , and lodge them in French or Spanish prisons . I have written something on this affair to Mr. Hodgson , and sent to him the second passport for a cartel to Morlaix , supposing ...
... Europe , to secure their pri- soners as well as they can , and lodge them in French or Spanish prisons . I have written something on this affair to Mr. Hodgson , and sent to him the second passport for a cartel to Morlaix , supposing ...
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acquainted act of parliament Adams affairs agreed alliance allies answer appears assured Britain Britannic Majesty British commission commissioners communicate Comte de Vergennes Congress consent conversation copy courier court DAVID HARTLEY DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR declared desire discharge disposition enclosed endeavours enemies England esteem expected express farther favor Fayette France FRANKLIN give Grenville HENRY LAURENS Holland hope house of Bourbon humble servant independence informed intended JOHN ADAMS king late ministry letter liberty London Lord Cornwallis Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty Marquis ministers nation obedient obliged obtained occasion offer opinion Ostend paper Paris parliament parole parties Passy persons plenipotentiary present prisoners proposed propositions reason received reconciliation respect RICHARD OSWALD Secretary sent sentiments separate peace separate treaty sincere Spain suppose thing thought tion to-morrow told treat of peace truce United Versailles wish wrote
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Էջ 279 - 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...
Էջ 279 - Superior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the long Lake ; thence through the middle of said long Lake, and the water communication between it and the lake of the Woods, to the said lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Էջ 288 - 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...
Էջ 279 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Էջ 281 - Papers belonging to any of the said -States, or their Citizens, which in the course of the War may have fallen into the hands of his Officers to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.
Էջ 280 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Էջ 288 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Էջ 280 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Էջ 289 - 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...
Էջ 306 - ... is necessary to be taken from them for the use of such armed force, the same shall be paid for at a reasonable price.