Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 99, no. 6)American Philosophical Society |
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Page 440 - 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 382 - Few of their children in the country know English. They import many books from Germany; and of the six printing-houses in the province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English.
Page 440 - Assez longtemps les cabinets politiques ont notifié la mort de ceux qui ne furent grands que dans leur éloge funèbre. Assez longtemps l'étiquette des cours a proclamé des deuils hypocrites.
Page 382 - The French, who watch all advantages, are now themselves making a German settlement, back of us, in the Illinois country, and by means of these Germans they may in time come to an understanding with ours ; and, indeed, in the last war, our Germans showed a general disposition, that seemed to bode us no good.
Page 381 - Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them...
Page 382 - Those who come hither are generally the most stupid of their own nation and, as ignorance is often attended with credulity when knavery would mislead it and with suspicion when honesty would set it right; and...
Page 451 - ... soon to acquire an infinite number of friends and admirers as well by the simplicity and sweetness of his manners as by the purity of his principles, the extent of his knowledge, and the charms of his mind. It will be remembered that every success which he obtained in his important negotiation was applauded and celebrated (so to express it) all over France as so many crowns conferred on genius and virtue. Even then the sentiment of our rights existed in the bottom of our souls.
Page 453 - That these separations may disappear between us in all times and circumstances, and that the union of sentiment which mingles our sorrows on this occasion, may continue long to cement the friendship and the interest of our two nations, is our constant prayer.
Page 382 - English; the Signs in our Streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German...
Page 451 - The National Assembly have not been stopped in their decree by the consideration that Franklin was a stranger. Great men are the fathers of universal humanity; their loss ought to be felt, as a common misfortune, by all the tribes of the great human family; and it belongs, without doubt, to a nation still affected by all the sentiments which accompany the achievement of their liberty, and which owes its enfranchisement essentially to the progress of the public reason, to be the first to give the...