 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 strani
...these two ideas of so ingenious a man, that you might adopt them, if they appear to you well founded. I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our...of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander Dick, who desired me to present his compliments to you. We... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 strani
...you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and...of the latter which we once lay our fingers -upon." In March of the same year he received a letter from his wife, announcing the death of her mother, Mrs.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 strani
...of my days in." On hearing that Franklin was about to return to America, David Hume wrote to him: " I am very sorry that you intend soon to leave our...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 strani
...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762: "I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day — "He has in no instance exhibited... | |
 | Perseverance - 1862 - 310 strani
...— " I am very sorry that you intend to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good thiugs, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but you...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." On his return to Philadelphia he received the thanks of the Assembly for his many services to Pennsylvania,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 strani
...America .has sent us many good things, — gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (7), &c. ; but ^ou are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the first...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 strani
...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762 : " I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 strani
...our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, <fec.; but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day,—"He has in no instance exhibited... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 strani
...leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things: gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, Ac., but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the...of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." In his reply, Franklin said : " Your compliments of gold and wisdom are very obliglLg to me, but a... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 strani
...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762 : " I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited... | |
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I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. 
