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" But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier... "
Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - Page 461
by James Parton - 1864 - 710 pages
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 18

Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 pages
...good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great wny towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. Our country produces, or is capable...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 10

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 572 pages
...and heartily. But the tide was too strong against us. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence,! and all parties joined in resolving...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter. My best respects to Mrs. Thomson....
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 10

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 578 pages
...and heartily. But the tide was too strong against us. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence,! and all parties joined in resolving...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter. My best respects to Mrs. Thomson....
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 10

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 580 pages
...But the tide was too strong against us. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence,t and all parties joined in resolving by this act to...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter. My best respects to Mrs. Thomson....
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...The nation was provoked by American claims of independence, and all parties joined by resolving in this act to settle the point. We might as well have...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." * • Thin letter was dated...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 pages
...The nation was provoked by American claims of independence, and all parties joined by resolving in this act to settle the point. We might as well have...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." * * This letter was dated in...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...The nation was provoked by American claims of independence, and all parties joined by resolving in this act to settle the point. We might as well have...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." * * This letter was dated in...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pages
...night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way toward indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." Mr. Thompson's reply to the...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous Works

John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 pages
...we could not do. But since it is down, my friend,—and it may be long before it rises again,—let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter." This letter was dated in London,...
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History of the United States: The American revolution

George Bancroft - 1852 - 484 pages
...point. We might as well have hin- CHAP dered the sun's setting : that wo could not do. But since 'tis down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises...tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments ; if we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter." For the opportunity of printing...
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