| 1840 - 708 trang
...conceive. Franklin, we think, was incapable of such a pleasantry, and at such a time. "MR. STRAHAN, " You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...are now my enemy, and I am, "Yours, B. FRANKLIN." Such was not the subject, or the style, or the time, in which Franklin could crack jokes. We regard... | |
| A. J. Langguth - 1989 - 644 trang
...drafted a short note to one of his closest friends in London, the publisher William Straham: MR. STRAHAM, You are a member of Parliament and one of that majority...You are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN Even in outrage, Franklin was prudent. The note was not sent. Because of his prestige, the Congress... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 trang
...second and third are personalized, and insofar as they beg the question of actual agency, figurative: "You have begun to burn our Towns and murder our People. Look upon your hands!" To authorize a deed is to commit it. Add to this the fact that, as the most recent editor of the letter... | |
| Nian-Sheng Huang - 1994 - 304 trang
...an Age (New York, 1955). 166-80, 2jj8n. Mr, Strahan, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of the Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction....burn our Towns and murder our People. Look upon your Handsl They are stained with the Blood of your Relationsl You and I were long Friends: You are now... | |
| Margaret Connell Szasz - 2001 - 400 trang
...she gave every congressman a copy. Embossed in red on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations." Although neither Congress nor the public responded with enthusiasm, her condemnation of the country's... | |
| Helen Hunt Jackson - 1995 - 560 trang
...to each congressman at personal expense. Embossed on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations." Jackson's A Century of Dishonor was above all propaganda for her crusade— by definition it was one-sided.... | |
| Don Cook - 1995 - 446 trang
...none too soon. Two months later, he wrote a caustic letter to William Strahan in London: Mr. Strahan, You are a member of Parliament and one of that Majority...You are now my Enemy and I am Yours, B. Franklin. But Franklin reconsidered his outburst against an old friend. The letter remained among his papers... | |
| Anna Wierzbicka - 1997 - 328 trang
...treated as opposites. For example: Friends are as dangerous as enemies. (Thomas De Quincey, "Essays") You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy and I am Yours, Benjamin Franklin. (Letter to William Strahan) Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 trang
...burn his bridges and resumed soon after a cordial correspondence with Strahan. Mr. Strahan, Philada. July 5. 1775 You are a Member of Parliament, and one...long Friends: You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 9 November 1779 Franklin was considered by the Enlightenment to be a philosopher,... | |
| Robert Middlekauff - 2023 - 292 trang
...cases, convinced Franklin that America faced an unforgiving and relentless tyranny. To Strahan he wrote: You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority...You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin" Franklin did not retreat from this assessment in the years to come, though he relented in his condemnation... | |
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