| Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 622 Seiten
...course. On the 5th of July, 1775, Franklin wrote the following from Philadelphia : " MR. STRAHAN : You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority...doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to bum our towns and murder our peoole. Look upon your hands, rney are stained with the blooa or your... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 Seiten
...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...with the blood of your relations ! You and I were long friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am yours." But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 Seiten
...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...stained with the blood of your relations! You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours." But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the opinions... | |
| John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 644 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 Seiten
...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... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 Seiten
...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...stained with the blood of your relations! You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours." But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the opinions... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 Seiten
...species of wit. It was as follows : "Ms. STKAHAN, — You are a member of Parliament, and one of the majority which has doomed my country to destruction....with the blood of your relations ! You and I were long friends. You are now my enemy — and I am " Yours, B. FEANKUN." The double meaning of " yours... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 392 Seiten
...species of wit. It was as follows : "ME. STRAHAN, — You are a member of Parliament, and one of the majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn oar towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! They are stained with the blood of your relations... | |
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