 ... Of all the enviable things England has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty Island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that...  The Chronicles of America Series ... - Página 5editado por - 1918Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1833 - 322 páginas
...Dorothea Blount. shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But 'tis said the arts delight to travel westward ? You have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 páginas
...keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But it is said the Arts delight to travel westward. You have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 páginas
...keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But it is said the Arts delight to travel westward. You have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 páginas
...keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But it is said the Arts delight to travel westward. You have... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1900 - 448 páginas
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 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 468 páginas
...brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry, enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests?"1 He had long looked forward to the evening of life, the last... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 500 páginas
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 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 502 páginas
...to keep one's Shoes dry; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy in almost every Neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant Minds, than we can collect in ranging 100 Leagues of our vast Forests? But 'tis said the Arts delight to travel Westward. You have effectually... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - 1908 - 318 páginas
...like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry," should "enjoy, in almost every neighborhood, more sensible,...virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests."* To which party did these " masses " adhere ? Were they Loyalist... | |
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