The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [CorrespondenceW. Duane, 1809 |
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Strona iii
... peace , same date . Provisional articles with Great Britain , November 30 , 1782 . To the secretary of foreign affairs , December 5 . Articles of peace . Dr. Franklin to Richard Oswald , British commissioner , Nov. 26 . Law of ...
... peace , same date . Provisional articles with Great Britain , November 30 , 1782 . To the secretary of foreign affairs , December 5 . Articles of peace . Dr. Franklin to Richard Oswald , British commissioner , Nov. 26 . Law of ...
Strona vii
... peace said to be formed by the Rockingham party . 325 III . Estimates of costs and situation of Great Britain by the war . - ibid . IV . Expression of the king of Great Britain to lord Shelburne . William Temple Franklin , to M. Dumas ...
... peace said to be formed by the Rockingham party . 325 III . Estimates of costs and situation of Great Britain by the war . - ibid . IV . Expression of the king of Great Britain to lord Shelburne . William Temple Franklin , to M. Dumas ...
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... peace , and excuses the depredations she has made on the commerce of France by pretences of illicit trade , & c . yet France considers the war as begun from the time of the king's message to parliament , complaining of the insult France ...
... peace , and excuses the depredations she has made on the commerce of France by pretences of illicit trade , & c . yet France considers the war as begun from the time of the king's message to parliament , complaining of the insult France ...
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... peace , friendship , and commerce with European states , but I apprehend this is scarce explicit enough to authorise one to treat of such a truce , if the proposition should again come upon the tapis . I therefore wish the congress to ...
... peace , friendship , and commerce with European states , but I apprehend this is scarce explicit enough to authorise one to treat of such a truce , if the proposition should again come upon the tapis . I therefore wish the congress to ...
Strona 51
... peace , the general bent of the nation being for it . The success of admiral Rodney's fleet against our allies , has a little elated our enemies for the present , and probably they will not now think of proposing it . If the approaching ...
... peace , the general bent of the nation being for it . The success of admiral Rodney's fleet against our allies , has a little elated our enemies for the present , and probably they will not now think of proposing it . If the approaching ...
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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
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Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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.