 ... 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
 | James E. Person - 1994 - 584 páginas
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 | Robert Middlekauff - 2023 - 292 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."4 Franklin never tried to answer this question. It was a rhetorical... | |
 | Ronald William Clark - 2001 - 564 páginas
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 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 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 1oo Leagues of our vast Forests?" Although Franklin did not answer his own question, he expressed confidence... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2004 - 330 páginas
...of England. Britain, "that little Island," he wrote in 1763, enjoyed "in almost every Neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous and elegant Minds, than we can collect in ranging 100 Leagues of our vast Forests. "" No one brought up in England, he said, could ever be happy in America.... | |
 | Edmund Sears Morgan - 2004 - 344 páginas
...its People." Why, he asked himself, "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?" In every neighborhood, it seemed, but Whitehall. There Franklin encountered... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2005 - 438 páginas
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 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 317 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." Because of the fame his electrical experiments had brought him, Franklin... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2006 - 344 páginas
...England. Britain, "that little Island," he wrote in 1763, enjoyed, "in almost every Neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous and elegant Minds, than we can collect in ranging 100 Leagues of our vast Forests."29 No one brought up in England, he said, could ever be happy in America.... | |
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