 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 trang
...gobetween through whom he had formerly communicated with Lord North, he wrote on the fifth of July: " You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority...were long friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am yours.'7 But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the opinions or defy the scruples of his colleagues,... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 650 trang
...towns, and murder oor people. Look upon your Lands; tlu-y are stained with 1&e blood of your relatives ! You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours, , " BJENJAMIM FRANKLIN/' The spirit of hostility which now blazed out in minds which disdained the.... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 644 trang
...this letter to an old friend in London: — " Mr. Strahan, — You are a member of parliament, and are of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn oui towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands; they are stained with the blood of your relatives... | |
 | Annie Emma Challice - 1863 - 384 trang
...wrote from America to an old friend of his in England: " Philadelphia, July 5th, 17?5. " MR. STRAHAN, " You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country/tjt * 100 THE KING'S PRINTER. destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 trang
...letter to an old friend iii London: — " Mr. Strahan, — You are a member of parliament, and are of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn out towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands; they are stained with the blood of your relatives... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 trang
...growth, and intensity, and sternness, of the new national feeling. £: Mr. Strahan, " Philadelphia. " You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...long friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am yours. — J3. Franklin" successfully at each stage, by the appropriate weapon. When the South fought for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 trang
...Franklin to Strahan, written some eighteen years afterwards : Philad., July 6, 1775. MR. ST&AHAN : Ton are a Member of Parliament, and one of that majority...hands ;— . they are stained with the blood of your relation* ! You and I were long friends, — yon are now my enemy ; and I am After the independence... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 578 trang
...Archives, Fourth Series, vol. ii. col. 1107. t Ibid. col. 1375. J Sparks's Life of Washington, vol. ip 137. your relations. You and I were long friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am yours, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN." It was apparently owing to the supineness with which General Gage had allowed himself... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 trang
...gobetween through whom he had formerly communicated with Lord North, he wrote,on the fifth of July: " You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority...long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours." But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the opinions or defy the scruples of his colleagues, and,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 trang
...species of wit. It was as follows : "MR. STRAHAN, — Yon are a member of Parliament, and one of the majority which has doomed my country to destruction....are now my enemy — and I am "Yours, B. FRANKLIN." The double meaning of "yours" will be immediately perceived. 92. A Characteristic Definition. — The... | |
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MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations... 
