 I assured him, that having more than once travelled almost from one end of the continent to the other, and kept a great variety of company, eating, drinking, and conversing with them freely, I never had heard in any conversation from any person, drunk...  Washington - Sivu 202tekijä(t) François Guizot - 1840 - 230 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Jesse Madison Gathany - 1919 - 340 sivua
...to many may be judged by Benjamin Franklin's statement to Lord Chatham in 1774 : "I have never heard from any person drunk or sober the least expression of a wish for separation." Washington also said, even so late as when he went to take command of the colonial army,... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 704 sivua
...independence. Benjamin Franklin, the greatest American of the later colonial days, said that he had never heard from any person drunk or sober the least expression of a wish for separation. Yet only twelve years after the The English government signing of the Treaty of Paris,... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 sivua
..."Independence, which none but rebels, fools, or madmen will contend for" (James Otis, 1765) ; "I have never heard in any conversation from any person drunk or sober the least expression of a wish for separation from England" (Benjamin Franklin, 1774) ; " That there are any who pant after independence... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 sivua
..."Independence, which none but rebels, fools, or madmen will contend for" (James Otis, 1765); "I have never heard in any conversation from any person drunk or sober the least expression of a wish for separation from England" (Benjamin Franklin, 1774); "That there are any who pant after independence... | |
 | 1900 - 536 sivua
...and kept a variety of company, eating, drinking, and conversing with them freely, and never had heard from any person, drunk or sober, the least expression...that such a thing would be advantageous to America." Only thirty-seven days before the battle of Concord John Adams said : " That there are any who pant... | |
 | 1900 - 1004 sivua
...and kept a variety of company, eating, drinking, and conversing with them freely, and never had heard from any person, drunk or sober, the least expression...that such a thing would be advantageous to America." Only thirty-seven days before the battle of Concord John Adams said : " That there are any who pant... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 sivua
...none but rebels, fools, or madmen will contend for." Benjamin Franklin, in 1774, stated: "I have never heard in any conversation from any person drunk or sober the least expression of a wish for separation from England." In the same year "Washington declared: "I am well satisfied that no such... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1961 - 726 sivua
...late as the year 1774 so well-informed a man as Benjamin Franklin could say in all seriousness that he "never had heard in any conversation from any person,...sober, the least expression of a wish for a separation from England. We now know that even as Franklin said these words, the American sense of purpose was... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 524 sivua
...at setting up for itself as an independent State, the Doct' thus expressed himself. " I assured him, that having more than once travelled almost from one...that such a Thing would be advantageous to America." It does not appear to me necessary to enlarge further on this subject. It has always been, and still... | |
 | Don Cook - 1995 - 446 sivua
...company, eating, drinking and conversing with them freely, I never had heard in any conversation with any person drunk or sober the least expression of...that such a thing would be advantageous to America. This statement in 1774 was still basically valid, and Franklin recorded that Chatham "expressed much... | |
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