Benjamin Franklin and Germany ...

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University of Pennsylvania, 1915 - Biography & Autobiography - 174 pages
 

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Page 107 - I was now and then prevailed on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but his discourses were chiefly either...
Page 52 - A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle, when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery.
Page 61 - ... person. In his return he was publicly hooted by mobs through every town he passed in Holland, with all sorts of reproachful epithets. The King of Prussia's humor of obliging those Princes to pay him the same toll per head for the men they drive through his dominions, as used to be paid him for their cattle, because they were sold as such, is generally spoken of with approbation, as containing a just reproof of those tyrants. I send you enclosed one of the many satires that have appeared on this...
Page 115 - Oft denkt man, wenn man ihn lieset: »wußte ich das nicht auch? aber so klar sahe ichs nicht, und weit gefehlt, daß es bei mir schlichte Maxime des Lebens wurde.
Page 107 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia.
Page 38 - Ne serait-il pas digne de nous, messieurs, de nous unir à cet acte religieux, de participer à cet hommage rendu à la face de l'univers et aux droits de l'homme, et au philosophe qui a le plus contribué à en propager la conquête sur toute la terre?
Page 58 - In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies...
Page 60 - The conduct of those Princes of Germany, who have sold the blood of their people, has subjected them to the contempt and odium of all Europe. The Prince of Anspach, whose recruits mutinied and refused to march, was obliged to disarm and fetter them, and drive them to the seaside by the help of his guards; himself attending in person. In his return he was publicly hooted by mobs through every town he passed in Holland, with all sorts of reproachful epithets.
Page 29 - John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens and Thomas Jefferson, or the majority of them, or of such of them as may assemble, or in case of the death, absence, indisposition, or other impediment of the •others, to any one of them, full power and authority, general and special...
Page 95 - American affairs as the gentleman alluded to and so injuriously reflected on; one, he was pleased to say, whom all Europe held in high estimation, for his knowledge and wisdom, and ranked with our Boyles and Newtons; who was an honor, not to the English nation only, but to human nature...

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