 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...supporter in Parliament of Lord North's measures. "Philadelphia, July 5, 1775. " MB. STRAIT \X, — You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You hnve begun to bum our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands! They arc stained with the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...subscribed this Petition to the King he wrote as follows to a former friend in London. " Mr. Strahan : <* You are a Member of Parliament and one of that ma"jority..." friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, " BENJAMIN FKANKLIN." t The Petition to the King was by no means the only document which the Congress... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...from Franklin to Strahan, written some eighteen years afterwards: Philad., July 5, 1775. MB. SniAnAjf: You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that majority...long friends, — you are now my enemy ; and I am After the independence of the Colonies, the friendly intercourse of Franklin with Strahan was renewed,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...former friend in London. " Mr. Strahan : ' You are a Member of Parliament and one of that ma' jority which has doomed my country to destruction. ' You...' friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN." t The Petition to the King was by no means the only document which the Congress... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 424 pages
...subscribed this Petition to the King he wrote as follows to a former friend in London. " Mr. Strahan : You are a Member of Parliament and one of "that majority...destruc"tion. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our • See the American Archives, especially two letters dated June 20. 1776 (vol. ii. p. J033.). 1775.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 594 pages
...Franklin brought one pound nineteen shillings. It ran: — LITERARY MISCELLANIES. "Mr. Strahan : You are s Member of Parliament, and one of that majority which...long friends; you are now my enemy and I am Yours, B. FBAXKLIM." Тпк chair of the practice of medicine in the University of Edinburgh is at present... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...characteristic note from Benjamin Franklin brought one pound and nineteen shillings. It ran : " Mr. Strahan — You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...They are stained with the blood of your relations I You and I were long friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN. TUB Perth Courier... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...in England, Mr. Strahan, the king's printer : — 4 PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 1775. í Mr. STRAHAN :— You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority...murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are signed with the blood of your relations. You and I were long friends : — you are now my enemy, and... | |
 | Willis's Current notes - 1856 - 110 pages
...and manly avowal. Philadelphia, July 5, 1775. Mr. Stiahan, — You are a member of Parliament, and of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction....have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Ixjok upon your hands ! — They are stained with the blood of your delations ! — You and I were... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are signed with the blood of your relations. You and I were long...friends: — you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, SB. FEAHKLW.' In 1776, although in his seventy-first year, he was called upon by Congress, to proceed... | |
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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... 
