Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 - 449 páginas |
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... side , has softened resentment and abated animosity on the other , so as to bring on an accommodation . You in England , if you wish for peace , have at present the opportunity of trying this means , with regard to the prisoners now in ...
... side , has softened resentment and abated animosity on the other , so as to bring on an accommodation . You in England , if you wish for peace , have at present the opportunity of trying this means , with regard to the prisoners now in ...
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... sides ; but this proposition seems to be naturally impracticable . We can never think of quitting a solid alliance made and ratified , in order to be in a state for receiving unknown proposals of peace which may vanish in the discussion ...
... sides ; but this proposition seems to be naturally impracticable . We can never think of quitting a solid alliance made and ratified , in order to be in a state for receiving unknown proposals of peace which may vanish in the discussion ...
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... side ; we shall be conquered and they will be hanged , if they do not accept the gracious offer of being pardoned on condition of serving the king , & c . A great part of your prisoners have been kept these six months on board a ship in ...
... side ; we shall be conquered and they will be hanged , if they do not accept the gracious offer of being pardoned on condition of serving the king , & c . A great part of your prisoners have been kept these six months on board a ship in ...
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... side might find to be a sufficient security to itself , might be practicable : and then , your sentiment , which you ... side , if I were to put the propositions separately to each ( being myself unauthorised ) might give me positive ...
... side might find to be a sufficient security to itself , might be practicable : and then , your sentiment , which you ... side , if I were to put the propositions separately to each ( being myself unauthorised ) might give me positive ...
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... side , to bind the bargain first . You have the odds of me in this matter , because you know one half of the question ; and I cannot give you any proof on the other side , but only my own presumptive judgment , upon PART 111 . 37 OF ...
... side , to bind the bargain first . You have the odds of me in this matter , because you know one half of the question ; and I cannot give you any proof on the other side , but only my own presumptive judgment , upon PART 111 . 37 OF ...
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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.