 | Pennsylvania - 1886 - 540 pages
...Basset. He was for years the correspondent of Franklin. It was to him that Franklin wrote in 1775 : " You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...Friends. You are now my enemy — and I am "Yours, " B. FRANKLIN." It has been supposed that this letter was intended to end the long friendship of which... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1886 - 538 pages
...Basset. He was for years the correspondent of Franklin. It was to him that Franklin wrote in 1775 : " You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...Friends. You are now my enemy — and I am "Yours, " B. FBANKLIN." It has been supposed that this letter was intended to end the long friendship of which... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christian life - 1886 - 488 pages
...Government toward the colonies. It ran thus : — PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 1775. Mr. STRAHAN, — Sir : You are a member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...your Hands. They are stained with the Blood of your Relatives. You and I were long Friends. You are now my Enemy, and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN. There is... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Conduct of life - 1886 - 476 pages
...thus : — PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 1775. Mr. STRAHAN, — Sir: You are a member of Parliament, and oue of that Majority which has doomed my country to Destruction....your Hands. They are stained with the Blood of your Relatives. You and I were long Friends. You are now my Enemy, and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN. There is... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 492 pages
...famous printer of Philadelphia and the King's Printer of London. ' Philad'., July 5, 1775. 'MR. STRAHAN, 'You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...: — You are now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours, ' B. FRANKLIN.' When peace was made between the two countries the old friendship was renewed. Ib. iii.... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...famous printer of Philadelphia and the King's Printer of London. 'Philad'., Julys, 1775'MR. STRAHAN, 'You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...: — You are now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours, ' B. FRANKLIN.' When peace was made between the two countries the old friendship was renewed. Ib. iii.... | |
 | Percy Greg - United States - 1887 - 520 pages
...their leaders to a personal friend in England : — ' Mr. Strahan, — You are a Member of Parliament, one of that majority which has doomed my country to...long friends. You are now my enemy, and I am yours, Benjamin Franklin.1 Such language from a veteran diplomatist, whose passions, curbed in youth and manhood... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...And the sexton tolled the bell." Prom Franklin.—" You are a member of Parliament, and one of the majority which has doomed my country to destruction....were long friends. You are now my enemy, and I am Youi-s, B. FKANKUN." From Franklin.—When Hancock, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1887 - 608 pages
...spirit : — PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 1775. Mn. STRAITAM : Sir,— Yon are a member of Parliament, ami one of that Majority which has doomed my country to...Towns and murder our People. Look upon your Hands. Thry are stained of your Relatives. You and I were long Friends. You are now my Kueiny, anil I am yours.... | |
 | William Stebbing - History - 1887 - 432 pages
...fresh from England, in 1775, to his old friend, William Strahan, the King's printer : " Mr. Strahan, you are a Member of Parliament, and one of that majority...country to destruction. You have begun to burn our homes and murder our people. Look at your hands ; they are stained with the blood of your relations.... | |
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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... 
