Benjamin Franklin's life and writings, a bibliographical essay on the Stevens' collection of books and MSS. relating to dr. Franklin, Volume 1801881 |
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Page 16 - MR. STRAHAN, 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 I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 16 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 27 - Pulteney (William) Thoughts on the present State of Affairs with America, and the means of Conciliation, 3rd Edition, half mor.
Page 32 - Originally written by Himself, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his Public Life, a variety of Anecdotes concerning him, by MM Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c., &c., and the Eulogium of M. Fauchet, Constitutional Bishop of the Department of Calvados, and a Member of the National Convention . . . London : Printed for J.
Page 26 - The Letters of GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON, and LIEUT. GOVERNOR OLIVER, &c., Printed at BOSTON. And remarks thereon. With the ASSEMBLY'S ADDRESS, And the PROCEEDINGS Of the Lords Committee of Council. Together with The Substance of Mr. Wedderburn's Speech relating to those Letters. And the Report of the Lords Committee to His Majesty in Council.
Page 35 - Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life written by himself, together with Essays, humorous, moral and literary.
Page 7 - At Philadelphia I called on the venerable and beloved Franklin. He was then on the bed of sickness from which he never rose. My recent return from a country in which he had left so many friends, and the perilous convulsions to which they had been exposed, revived all his anxieties to know what part they had taken, what had been their course, and what their fate. He went over all in succession, with a rapidity and animation almost too much for his strength.
Page 7 - I should consider as his property, and would deliver to his order. He came on immediately to New York, called on me for it, and I delivered it to him. As he put it into his pocket, he said carelessly he had either the original, or another copy of it, I do not recollect which.
Page 29 - Supplement," printed by Franklin at his private press at Passy, was a good joke, and is believed to be unique. PROVISIONAL Articles, Signed at Paris, the 30th of November, 1782, by the Commissioner of His Britannic Majesty, and the Commissioners of the United States of America.
Page 12 - ... and are open, and, so far, honorable enemies ; the , if enemies, are more covered. I never did any of them the least injury, and can conceive no other source of their malice but envy.