Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 - 449 páginas |
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... necessary for your justification . I am , & c . W. ALEXANDER . SIR , TO COUNT DE VERGENNES , Minister for foreign affairs , Versailles . Passy , April 24 , 1778 . Mr. Hartley , member of parliament , an old ac- quaintance of mine ...
... necessary for your justification . I am , & c . W. ALEXANDER . SIR , TO COUNT DE VERGENNES , Minister for foreign affairs , Versailles . Passy , April 24 , 1778 . Mr. Hartley , member of parliament , an old ac- quaintance of mine ...
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... necessary where fair dealing is intended , gives just reason to suppose you intend the contrary . Besides , as your court has sent commissioners to treat with the congress , with all the powers that would be given them by the crown ...
... necessary where fair dealing is intended , gives just reason to suppose you intend the contrary . Besides , as your court has sent commissioners to treat with the congress , with all the powers that would be given them by the crown ...
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... necessary for me to represent to you , or you to me , the mis- chiefs each nation is subjected to by the war : we all see clear enough the nonsense of continuing it ; the difficulty is where to find sense enough to put an end to it ...
... necessary for me to represent to you , or you to me , the mis- chiefs each nation is subjected to by the war : we all see clear enough the nonsense of continuing it ; the difficulty is where to find sense enough to put an end to it ...
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... necessary to enter at large into the reasons which induce me to think , that the British ministry as well as the American plenipotentiary would consent to the terms of the proposed 38 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 111 . PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
... necessary to enter at large into the reasons which induce me to think , that the British ministry as well as the American plenipotentiary would consent to the terms of the proposed 38 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 111 . PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
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... necessary for the end of at- taining any additional confidence in your esteem to enable me to co - operate the more effectually towards the restoration of peace , there is nothing that I would wish you to be assured of but this : that ...
... necessary for the end of at- taining any additional confidence in your esteem to enable me to co - operate the more effectually towards the restoration of peace , there is nothing that I would wish you to be assured of but this : that ...
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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.