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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. "
The Development of Constitutional Liberty in the English Colonies of America - Page 147
by Eben Greenough Scott - 1882 - 334 pages
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...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...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault, that we have not kept him ; whence it appears, that we do not agree with Solomon,...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &,c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault, that we have not kept him ; whence it appears, that we do not agree with Solomon,...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the...great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault that we have not kept him ; whence it appears that we do not agree with Solomon,...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &-c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the...great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault, that we have not kept him ; whence it appears, that we do not agree with Solomon,...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous Works

John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,—gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but yon are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault that we have not kept him; whence it appears that we do not agree with Solomon,...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,— gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (?), &c.; but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed., the...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...
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The Ashlar, Volume 2

Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 pages
...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...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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Perseverance Under Difficulties, as Shown in the Lives of Great Men

Perseverance - Biography - 1862 - 310 pages
...leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good thiugs, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the...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,...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography, with ...

Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...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...
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867

Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1867 - 766 pages
...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...
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