 | A. J. Langguth - 1989 - 644 էջ
...drafted a short note to one of his closest friends in London, the publisher William Straham: MR. STRAHAM, You are a member of Parliament and one of that majority...stained with the blood of your relations! You and I were long friends. You are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN Even in outrage, Franklin was prudent.... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 էջ
...second and third are personalized, and insofar as they beg the question of actual agency, figurative: "You have begun to burn our Towns and murder our People. Look upon your hands!" To authorize a deed is to commit it. Add to this the fact that, as the most recent editor of the letter... | |
 | Nian-Sheng Huang - 1994 - 304 էջ
...an Age (New York, 1955). 166-80, 2jj8n. Mr, Strahan, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of the Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction....burn our Towns and murder our People. Look upon your Handsl They are stained with the Blood of your Relationsl You and I were long Friends: You are now... | |
 | Margaret Connell Szasz - 2001 - 400 էջ
...she gave every congressman a copy. Embossed in red on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations." Although neither Congress nor the public responded with enthusiasm, her condemnation of the country's... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - 1995 - 560 էջ
...to each congressman at personal expense. Embossed on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations." Jackson's A Century of Dishonor was above all propaganda for her crusade— by definition it was one-sided.... | |
 | Don Cook - 1995 - 446 էջ
...none too soon. Two months later, he wrote a caustic letter to William Strahan in London: Mr. Strahan, You are a member of Parliament and one of that Majority...stained with the Blood of your Relations! You and I were long Friends. You are now my Enemy and I am Yours, B. Franklin. But Franklin reconsidered his outburst... | |
 | Robert Middlekauff - 2023 - 292 էջ
...cases, convinced Franklin that America faced an unforgiving and relentless tyranny. To Strahan he wrote: You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...stained with the Blood of your Relations! You and I were long Friends: You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin" Franklin did not retreat from this... | |
 | Donald W. Livingston - 1998 - 462 էջ
...seceded from the empire. Upon the beginning of hostilities, Franklin penned these harsh words to Strahan: "You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...stained with the Blood of your Relations! You and I were long Friends: You are now my Enemy and I am, Yours."18 Had the war not occurred, Strahan might well... | |
 | Susan Hill Lindley - 1996 - 520 էջ
...Congressman, "bound in blood-red cloth. . . . Embossed on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: 'Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations.'"5- She then turned her attention to the plight of the California Mission Indians, another... | |
 | Ford - 1999 - 412 էջ
...concerning Franklin is the very prevalent notion that the famous letter written by him to William Strahan: You are a member of Parliament and one of that majority...stained with the blood of your relations. You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am, yours, B. Franklin, was seriously meant and actually... | |
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You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands ! — They are stained with the Blood of your Relations ! You and... 
