 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You liave replaced... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it; Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 580 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 572 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when. they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 558 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | 1897 - 590 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession...house, made a prisoner of my portrait and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 Seiten
...merit as a picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession of this city and my house [one of the enemies thus accused, probably wrongly, was Andre], made a prisoner of my portrait, and... | |
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It is allowed by those who have seen it to have great merit as a picture in every respect; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession of this city and my house, made a prisoner of... 
