 | Baptists - 1840 - 708 pages
...conceive. Franklin, we think, was incapable of such a pleasantry, and at such a time. "MR. STRAHAN, " You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am, "Yours, B. FRANKLIN." Such was not the subject, or the style, or the time, in which Franklin could crack jokes.... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 644 pages
...drafted a short note to one of his closest friends in London, the publisher William Straham: MR. STRAHAM, You are a member of Parliament and one of that majority...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
...none too soon. Two months later, he wrote a caustic letter to William Strahan in London: Mr. Strahan, You are a member of Parliament and one of that Majority...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... | |
 | Donald W. Livingston - History - 1998 - 462 pages
...seceded from the empire. Upon the beginning of hostilities, Franklin penned these harsh words to Strahan: "You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...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... | |
 | Robert Middlekauff - History - 2023 - 292 pages
...cases, convinced Franklin that America faced an unforgiving and relentless tyranny. To Strahan he wrote: You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...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... | |
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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... 
