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... The Life of Benjamin Franklin - Page 263by Benjamin Franklin - 1875Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 pages
...his oldest and best friends in London : — " MR. STKAHAN : You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction....friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am yours." To others he wrote in a different strain. Many patriots were uncertain how the contest would end, and... | |
| A. J. Langguth - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 644 pages
...friends in London, the publisher William Straham: MR. STRAHAM, You are a member of Parliament and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction....long friends. You are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN Even in outrage, Franklin was prudent. The note was not sent. Because of his prestige,... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 304 pages
...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 - Social Science - 2001 - 400 pages
...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 - History - 1995 - 560 pages
...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 - History - 1995 - 446 pages
...a caustic letter to William Strahan in London: Mr. Strahan, You are a member of Parliament and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction....long Friends. You are now my Enemy and I am Yours, B. Franklin. But Franklin reconsidered his outburst against an old friend. The letter remained among... | |
| Anna Wierzbicka - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 328 pages
...treated as opposites. For example: Friends are as dangerous as enemies. (Thomas De Quincey, "Essays") You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy and I am Yours, Benjamin Franklin. (Letter to William Strahan) Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain... | |
| Robert Middlekauff - History - 2023 - 292 pages
...an unforgiving and relentless tyranny. To Strahan he wrote: You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction....long Friends: You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin" Franklin did not retreat from this assessment in the years to come, though he relented... | |
| Donald W. Livingston - History - 1998 - 462 pages
...hostilities, Franklin penned these harsh words to Strahan: "You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction....long Friends: You are now my Enemy and I am, Yours." 18 Had the war not occurred, Strahan might well have produced an American edition of the works of his... | |
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