Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 - 449 páginas |
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... enemies . I can assure you from my own certain knowledge , that your people , prisoners in Ame- rica , have been treated with great kindness : they have been served with the same rations of wholesome provisions with our own troops ...
... enemies . I can assure you from my own certain knowledge , that your people , prisoners in Ame- rica , have been treated with great kindness : they have been served with the same rations of wholesome provisions with our own troops ...
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... enemies by our barbarity , not only of the present inhabitants of a great country , but of their infinitely more numerous posterity ; who will in all future ages detest the name of Englishman , as much as the children in Holland now do ...
... enemies by our barbarity , not only of the present inhabitants of a great country , but of their infinitely more numerous posterity ; who will in all future ages detest the name of Englishman , as much as the children in Holland now do ...
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... enemy . In her future prosperity , if she forgets and forgives , it is all that can be rea- sonably expected of her . I believe she will make as good and useful a wife as she did a daughter , that her husband will love and honor her ...
... enemy . In her future prosperity , if she forgets and forgives , it is all that can be rea- sonably expected of her . I believe she will make as good and useful a wife as she did a daughter , that her husband will love and honor her ...
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Benjamin Franklin. England through you , might , if you are an enemy , be made use of to ruin us with our new and good friends . I may be indiscreet enough in many things ; but certainly if I were disposed to make propositions , ( which ...
Benjamin Franklin. England through you , might , if you are an enemy , be made use of to ruin us with our new and good friends . I may be indiscreet enough in many things ; but certainly if I were disposed to make propositions , ( which ...
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... enemies , giving up or selling of our arms and warlike stores , dismissing our ships of war and troops , and putting those enemies in possession of our forts and ports . This proposition of delivering ourselves bound and gagged , ready ...
... enemies , giving up or selling of our arms and warlike stores , dismissing our ships of war and troops , and putting those enemies in possession of our forts and ports . This proposition of delivering ourselves bound and gagged , ready ...
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acquainted act of parliament Adams affairs agreed alliance allies answer appears assured Britain Britannic Majesty British commission commissioners communicate Comte de Vergennes Congress consent conversation copy courier court DAVID HARTLEY DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR declared desire discharge disposition enclosed endeavours enemies England esteem expected express farther favor Fayette France FRANKLIN give Grenville HENRY LAURENS Holland hope house of Bourbon humble servant independence informed intended JOHN ADAMS king late ministry letter liberty London Lord Cornwallis Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty Marquis ministers nation obedient obliged obtained occasion offer opinion Ostend paper Paris parliament parole parties Passy persons plenipotentiary present prisoners proposed propositions reason received reconciliation respect RICHARD OSWALD Secretary sent sentiments separate peace separate treaty sincere Spain suppose thing thought tion to-morrow told treat of peace truce United Versailles wish wrote
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Página 279 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Página 279 - Superior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the long Lake ; thence through the middle of said long Lake, and the water communication between it and the lake of the Woods, to the said lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Página 288 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Página 279 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Página 281 - Papers belonging to any of the said -States, or their Citizens, which in the course of the War may have fallen into the hands of his Officers to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.
Página 280 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Página 288 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Página 280 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Página 289 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Página 306 - ... is necessary to be taken from them for the use of such armed force, the same shall be paid for at a reasonable price.