Scenes from the Life of Benjamin FranklinSmall, Maynard, 1916 - 83 páginas |
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affairs Almanac American apprentice Arthur Lee ballads bart bedchamber Benjamin Franklin Britain building Charles Collinson colonel colonies colonists Company of Philadelphia Congress Continental Congress Courant court Declaration of Independence Duke Edward electric England experiment famous France Frank FRANKLIN SIGNING Franklin Union Franklin wrote Franklin's day friends Gazette George Grenville Governor Guadenhut Hall humor hundred Indians Inhabitants James Franklin Jefferson Keimer King King's King's counsel kite letters Leyden jar liberty Library Company lightning London Marquis master Mills ministry newspaper Old State House paper Paris Parliament Passy Pennsylvania Philadelphia philosopher Poor Richard's Poor Richard's Almanac portrait of Franklin prentice printer printing office regiment of foot repeal Richard Richard Bache Right Honourable Robert Rockingham says secretary ship Silas Deane silk Stamp Act stand Street Temple Franklin thousand Pounds tion to-day Townshend treasurer treaty of alliance William William Temple Franklin
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Página 62 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Página 57 - That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
Página 42 - But an internal tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Página 11 - It is, perhaps, below the dignity of your profession to act as steward of the rum, but if you were to deal it out and only just after prayers, you would have them all about you.
Página 14 - At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the Colonies to the southward of Boston.
Página 11 - We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised, besides pay and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually served out to them, half in the morning and the other half in the evening; and I observed they were as punctual in attending to receive it; upon which I said to Mr.
Página 21 - I endeavored to make it both entertaining and useful, and it accordingly came to be in such demand, that I reaped considerable profit from it, vending annually near ten thousand.
Página 74 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Página 32 - Make a small cross of two light strips of cedar, the arms so long as to reach to the four corners of a large thin silk handkerchief when extended...
Página 15 - These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defence of their privileges.