 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 sivua
...individual. " His reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederic ihe Great or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. " Newton had astonished, perhaps, forty or fifty men in Europe ; for not more than that number, probably,... | |
 | John Adams - 1856 - 716 sivua
...exaggerating his reputation, than were ever before or since practised in favor of any individual. Mis reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz...more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. Newton had astonished perhaps forty or fifty men in Europe ; for not more than that number, probably,... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 sivua
...able to regard his colleague's great fame with equanimity. "Franklin's reputation," says Mr. Adams, "was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 sivua
...colleague's great fame with equanimity. ki Franklin's reputation," says Mr. Adams, " was more universal I'aan that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick or Voltaire...character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of thom. * * His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1889 - 708 sivua
...(Franklin's) reputation," said John France. " Adams at the time when Franklin's French duties were beginning, "was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...His name was familiar to government and people, to foreign countries, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians to such a degree that there... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1889 - 560 sivua
...had embraced. His colleague, John Adams, by no means the most ardent of his admirers, said of him : " His reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick the Great or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. Newton... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1890 - 608 sivua
...had embraced. His colleague, John Adams, by no means the most ardent of his admirers, said of him : " His reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick the Great or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. Newton... | |
 | 1899 - 72 sivua
...the most respectable man of America." Even John Adams says of Franklin's reputation in Europe that it was "more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebians, to such a degree that there... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - 1904 - 358 sivua
...in America that Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederic or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. "His name is familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 sivua
...Adams, speaking of what he saw, on coming to France a year later, and what was little to his liking, " was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton,...more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them." And not only the many friendships which he had already formed there, and to which he returned as to... | |
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Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. 
