| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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