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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesacquainted affairs affectionate agent agreeable America answer appointed Assembly believe bill Boston Britain brother CADWALLADER COLDEN Captain Falconer colonies continue DEAR CHILD dear friend DEAR SIR DEBORAH FRANKLIN desire doubt duty enclosed endeavour England esteem French gentlemen give glad Gnadenhutten governor happy hear honor hope House Indians JANE MECOM JOHN BARTRAM JOSEPH GALLOWAY journey King late letter London Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames Lord Loudoun Lordship manufactures MECOM ment mention merchants mother never obliged occasion opinion paper money Parliament Penn Pennsylvania petition Philadelphia pleasure present printed proposed Proprietary province received your favor repeal respect Sally SAMUEL COOPER seems sent sentiments servant silk Sir William Johnson sister soon Stamp Act Stevenson suppose thanks thing Thomas Penn thought tion trade William wish write wrote Popular passagesPage 269 - Go constantly to church, whoever preaches ; the act of devotion in the common prayer book is your principal business there, and if properly attended to, will do more towards amending the heart than Sermons generally can do. For they were composed by men of much greater piety and wisdom than our common composers of sermons can pretend to be... Page 329 - Every man in England seems to consider himself as a piece of a sovereign over America ; seems to jostle himself into the throne with the king, and talks of our subjects in the colonies. Page 36 - Thus you see I am in a fair way of having no other tasks than such as I shall like to give myself, and of enjoying what I look upon as a great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy men as are pleased to honor me with their friendship or acquaintance, on such points as may produce something for the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business. Page 246 - Of all the enviable things England has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty island, which compar'd to America, is but like a steppingstone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry... Page 75 - He that for giving a draught of water to a thirsty person, should expect to be paid with a good plantation, would be modest in. his demands, compared with those who think they deserve heaven for the little good they do on earth. Page 73 - His outward freedom : tyranny must be ; Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse. Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong, But justice, and some fatal curse annex'd, Deprives them of their outward liberty ; Their inward lost : witness the irreverent son Of him who built the ark ; who, for the shame Done to his father, heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race. Page 268 - I have in a private capacity given just cause of offence to any one whatever), yet they are enemies, and very bitter ones; and you must expect their enmity will extend in some degree to you, so that your slightest indiscretions will be magnified into crimes, in order the more sensibly to wound and afflict me. It is therefore the more necessary for you to be extremely circumspect in all your behaviour, that no advantage may be given to their malevolence. Page 290 - ... cod, like other fish, when attacked by their enemies, fly into any water where they can be safest; that whales, when they have a mind to eat cod, pursue them wherever they fly; and that the grand leap of the whale in the chase up the Falls of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. Page 75 - I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. In my travels, and since my settlement, I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have any opportunity of making the least direct return ; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Page 72 - In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will, in my opinion, be not able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious. References from web pagesItem of the Day: Franklin on the Slave Trade (1790/1836 ... VI. Franklin: Bibliography. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary ... JSTOR: The Lost Squares of Dr. Franklin: Ben Franklin's Missing ... The Book Shed Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller Welcome TEACHING THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION: A LESSON WITH ... Bibliographic information
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