 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 890 pages
...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...above gold ; for we take care never to send back an otince of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,— gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (?), &c.; but you are the first philosopher,...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
...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...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 - 1862 - 310 pages
...intend to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good thiugs, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but you are the first philosopher, and,...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 - 1867 - 748 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 pages
...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 •-. wo are beholden to her." Aud most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, —... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 656 pages
...hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, — gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, and so forth; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." * Even eight years before that time, an eminent French scholar, in sending to Franklin, at Philadelphia,... | |
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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. 
