 | Pennsylvania - 1886 - 540 pages
...Franklin wrote in 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...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 it speaks, and... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1886 - 538 pages
...Franklin wrote in 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...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 it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 156 pages
...: — " 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...long friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am yours." To others he wrote in a different strain. Many patriots were uncertain how the contest would end, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...London: — " MR. STKAHAN : 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." To others he wrote in a different strain. Many patriots were uncertain how the contest would end, and... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christian life - 1886 - 488 pages
...Mr. STRAHAN, — Sir : You are a member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...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
...Mr. STRAHAN, — Sir: You are a member of Parliament, and oue of that Majority which has doomed my country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...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
...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...now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours, ' B. FRANKLIN.' When peace was made between the two countries the old friendship was renewed. Ib. iii. 147. * On this... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...Julys, 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...now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours, ' B. FRANKLIN.' When peace was made between the two countries the old friendship was renewed. Ib. iii. 147. ' On this... | |
 | Percy Greg - United States - 1887 - 520 pages
...England : — ' Mr. Strahan, — You are a Member of Parliament, 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, Benjamin Franklin.1 Such language from a veteran diplomatist, whose passions, curbed in youth and manhood... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...bell." Prom Franklin.—" You are a member of Parliament, and one of the 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 Youi-s, B. FKANKUN." From Franklin.—When Hancock, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence,... | |
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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... 
