| Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 258 páginas
...general; but the rich men dislik'd it, for it increas'd and strengthen'd the clamor for more money, and they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition slacken'd, and the point was carried by a majority in the House. My friends there, who conceiv'd I... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 páginas
...general, but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened the clamor for more money ; and they happening to have no writers among them that...employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job aind a great help to me. This was another advantage gained by my being able to write. The utility of... | |
| 1938 - 396 páginas
...only did his arguments help bring about the new issue, but his grateful friends in the legislature "thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing...another advantage gained by my being able to write." In the neighboring province of New Jersey Franklin was once at Burlington when the legislature wanted... | |
| 1895 - 818 páginas
...general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened the clamor for more money, and they, happening to have no writers among them...the point was carried by a majority in the House. . . . The utility of this currency became by time and experience so evident as never afterward to be... | |
| Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 456 páginas
...general; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened the clamor for more money; and, they happening to have no writers among them...slackened, and the point was carried by a majority in the House."8 By much the most interesting idea in the pamphlet, however, is the elaboration of the labor... | |
| 1924 - 2596 páginas
...was, as he says in his Autobiography, "Well received by the common people in general, and my opponents happening to have no writers among them that were...their opposition slackened and the point was carried in the House/- He then secured the contract for printing the money, "a profitable job and a great help... | |
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