Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 - 449 páginas |
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Benjamin Franklin. The subscription for the prisoners will have excellent effects in favor of England and Englishmen . The Scotch subscrip- tions for raising troops to destroy us , though amounting to much greater sums , will not do ...
Benjamin Franklin. The subscription for the prisoners will have excellent effects in favor of England and Englishmen . The Scotch subscrip- tions for raising troops to destroy us , though amounting to much greater sums , will not do ...
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... favors , or so many benefits for which we are to make compensation . As our opinions in America are totally different , a treaty on the terms proposed , appears to me utterly impracticable either here or there . Here we certainly cannot ...
... favors , or so many benefits for which we are to make compensation . As our opinions in America are totally different , a treaty on the terms proposed , appears to me utterly impracticable either here or there . Here we certainly cannot ...
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... favor , or as giving her a right to expect pe- culiar advantages in commerce . By his importunity I found his visit was not so occasional as he represented it : and from some expressions 1 conjectured he might be sent by Lord 20 PART ...
... favor , or as giving her a right to expect pe- culiar advantages in commerce . By his importunity I found his visit was not so occasional as he represented it : and from some expressions 1 conjectured he might be sent by Lord 20 PART ...
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... favor of a minister , can cheat you out of in a single article . You think we flatter ourselves , and are deceived into an opinion that England must acknowledge our independency . We , on the other hand , think you flatter yourselves in ...
... favor of a minister , can cheat you out of in a single article . You think we flatter ourselves , and are deceived into an opinion that England must acknowledge our independency . We , on the other hand , think you flatter yourselves in ...
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... favor of the 23d past , in which you mention , " that the alliance between France and America , is the great stumbling - block in the way of making peace ; " and you go on to observe , that " whatever engagements America may have ...
... favor of the 23d past , in which you mention , " that the alliance between France and America , is the great stumbling - block in the way of making peace ; " and you go on to observe , that " whatever engagements America may have ...
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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.