The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 34–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ iii
... discharge from parole given to earl Cornwallis by Dr. Franklin , June 9 . · - - 153 To the secretary of foreign affairs of the United States , August 12. 154 To Robert Morris , August 12 . To the secretary of foreign affairs , September ...
... discharge from parole given to earl Cornwallis by Dr. Franklin , June 9 . · - - 153 To the secretary of foreign affairs of the United States , August 12. 154 To Robert Morris , August 12 . To the secretary of foreign affairs , September ...
Էջ 49
... discharge him from prison , and being reduced to great distress by his pay both as captain and engineer being stopped , and being also re- fused payment of an account which the British government owed him , ( to the amount of eight ...
... discharge him from prison , and being reduced to great distress by his pay both as captain and engineer being stopped , and being also re- fused payment of an account which the British government owed him , ( to the amount of eight ...
Էջ 53
... discharged his balance here , for which he has importuned me rather too much . We furnished him with about twenty thousand pounds sterling , to discharge his first accounts , which he was to replace as soon as he received remittances ...
... discharged his balance here , for which he has importuned me rather too much . We furnished him with about twenty thousand pounds sterling , to discharge his first accounts , which he was to replace as soon as he received remittances ...
Էջ 94
... discharge of all such drafts of congress , or for the repayment of such sums as I may in the mean time be obliged to borrow for the dis- charge of those drafts . I have the honor to be , & c . B. FRANKLIN . SIR , TRANSLATION . From the ...
... discharge of all such drafts of congress , or for the repayment of such sums as I may in the mean time be obliged to borrow for the dis- charge of those drafts . I have the honor to be , & c . B. FRANKLIN . SIR , TRANSLATION . From the ...
Էջ 98
... discharged at sea , except in one instance , that of fifty - three men taken in the Snake sloop , by the Pilgrim and ... discharge of our people . Those who escape and pass through France to get home , put me also to a very great expense ...
... discharged at sea , except in one instance , that of fifty - three men taken in the Snake sloop , by the Pilgrim and ... discharge of our people . Those who escape and pass through France to get home , put me also to a very great expense ...
Բովանդակություն
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
6 | |
7 | |
11 | |
15 | |
21 | |
249 | |
255 | |
260 | |
267 | |
274 | |
280 | |
286 | |
288 | |
57 | |
59 | |
64 | |
94 | |
104 | |
113 | |
117 | |
122 | |
157 | |
193 | |
211 | |
220 | |
230 | |
231 | |
237 | |
243 | |
292 | |
294 | |
301 | |
308 | |
315 | |
320 | |
321 | |
326 | |
332 | |
338 | |
359 | |
369 | |
378 | |
389 | |
395 | |
407 | |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
acknowlegement acquainted Adams affairs agreed Alliance America answer appointed arrived bills brig Britain Britannic majesty captain Jones cargo colonel Laurens commission commissioners copy count de Vergennes court court of Denmark desire drafts embassador enclosed England English esteem Europe excellency exchange expected expense favor Fayette France furnished gentlemen give Grenville hands HENRY LAURENS Holland honor hope James Lovell JOHN ADAMS John Paul Jones king Kleven la Fayette late letter liberty livres loan lord Cornwallis lord Shelburne majesty marquis mentioned minister ministry nations negociation obliged obtained occasion officers opinion Oswald papers Paris Passy payment peace persons port pounds sterling present prisoners prizes proposed received refused request respect RICHARD OSWALD sail Samuel Huntington secretary sent shew ship soon Spain squadron supplies suppose taken Texel thing tion treaty United Versailles vessels wish write
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 401 - 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...
Էջ 401 - 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.
Էջ 182 - 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.
Էջ 181 - 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...
Էջ 180 - 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...
Էջ 193 - 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 181 - 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 180 - 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 433 - 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.