 | 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
...in London: 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...You are now my Enemy and I am Yours, B. Franklin. But Franklin reconsidered his outburst against an old friend. The letter remained among his papers... | |
 | 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
...tyranny. To Strahan he wrote: You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...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 in his condemnation... | |
 | Donald W. Livingston - History - 1998 - 462 pages
...harsh words to 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Philada. July 5. 1775 You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...long Friends: You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 9 November 1779 Franklin was considered by the Enlightenment to be a philosopher,... | |
 | Donald W. Livingston - History - 1998 - 470 pages
...harsh words to 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...were 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... | |
 | Susan Hill Lindley - Religion - 1996 - 520 pages
...Congressman, "bound in blood-red cloth. . . . Embossed on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: 'Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations.'"5- She then turned her attention to the plight of the California Mission Indians, another... | |
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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... 
