 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...individual. " His reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederic ihe Great or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed...held in admiration in their respective countries, at the head of the philosophers, had spread among scientific people a mysterious wonder at the genius... | |
 | John Adams - United States - 1856 - 716 pages
...his reputation, than were ever before or since practised in favor of any individual. Mis reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton....probably, at any one time had read him and understood bim by his discoveries and demonstrations. And these being hold in admiration in their respective countries... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...was not able to regard his colleague's great fame with equanimity. "Franklin's reputation," says Mr. Adams, "was more universal than that of Leibnitz or...more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. * * His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers,... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...colleague's great fame with equanimity. ki Franklin's reputation," says Mr. Adams, " was more universal I'aan that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick or Voltaire...character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of thom. * * His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1889 - 560 pages
...said of him : " His reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick the Great or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed...probably, at any one time had read him and understood him, and these being held in admiration in their respective countries, at the head of the philosophers,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1889 - 708 pages
...(Franklin's) reputation," said John France. " Adams at the time when Franklin's French duties were beginning, "was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. * ยป * His name was familiar to government and people, to foreign countries, nobility, clergy, and... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1890 - 608 pages
...said of him : " His reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick the Great or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed...probably, at any one time had read him and understood him, and these being held in admiration in their respective countries, at the head of the philosophers,... | |
 | Franklin Statue (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1899 - 72 pages
...the most respectable man of America." Even John Adams says of Franklin's reputation in Europe that it was "more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers,... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - Americans - 1904 - 358 pages
...in America that Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederic or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. "His name is familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...Adams, speaking of what he saw, on coming to France a year later, and what was little to his liking, " was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them." And not only the many friendships which he had already formed there, and to which he returned as to... | |
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Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. 
