| Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 513 pages
...July 5, 1775 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 If a temperament naturally cool and phlegmatic can, in old age, be thus heated, you will judge by that... | |
| Thomas Fleming - Inventors - 2007 - 196 pages
...July 5, 1775 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...and murder our People.— Look upon your Hands!— You and I were long Friends:— You are now my Enemy,— and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN After he wrote... | |
| Thomas Fleming - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 204 pages
...Destruction.— You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People.— Look upon your Hands!— You and I were long Friends:— You are now my Enemy,— and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN 115 After he wrote the letter, Franklin decided not to mail it. But he realized its value as propaganda,... | |
| 234 pages
...own. In fact, she adorned the covers of the congressional copies with the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations." 48 The delicious audacity of her gesture is only matched by its devastating logic: seek honor from... | |
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