Memoirs of the Life and Writings of B.F. ...W. Colburn, 1818 - 450 pages |
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... consider you at present , and whose posterity will consider you , as the worst and wickedest nation upon earth . A peace you may undoubtedly obtain by drop- ping all your pretensions to govern us ; and by your superior skill in ...
... consider you at present , and whose posterity will consider you , as the worst and wickedest nation upon earth . A peace you may undoubtedly obtain by drop- ping all your pretensions to govern us ; and by your superior skill in ...
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... considering them . With great and sincere esteem and respect , I have the honor to be , & c . B. FRANKLIN . ( Enclosed in the foregoing . ) I do hereby certify whom it may concern , that I was with Mr. Pultney and Dr. Franklin at Paris ...
... considering them . With great and sincere esteem and respect , I have the honor to be , & c . B. FRANKLIN . ( Enclosed in the foregoing . ) I do hereby certify whom it may concern , that I was with Mr. Pultney and Dr. Franklin at Paris ...
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... consider if some expedient cannot be found to put a stop to the desolation of America , and prevent the miseries of a general war . As I am conscious of having taken every step in my power to prevent the breach , and no one to widen it ...
... consider if some expedient cannot be found to put a stop to the desolation of America , and prevent the miseries of a general war . As I am conscious of having taken every step in my power to prevent the breach , and no one to widen it ...
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... consider it as a sort of tar - and - feather honor , or a mixture of foulness and folly ; which every man among us who should accept from your king , would be obliged to renounce or exchange for that conferred by the mobs of their own ...
... consider it as a sort of tar - and - feather honor , or a mixture of foulness and folly ; which every man among us who should accept from your king , would be obliged to renounce or exchange for that conferred by the mobs of their own ...
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... consider propo- sitions relating to it . I have had so many such put into my hands that I am tired of them . I will however give your proposal of a ten years ' truce this answer : that though I think a solid peace made at once , a much ...
... consider propo- sitions relating to it . I have had so many such put into my hands that I am tired of them . I will however give your proposal of a ten years ' truce this answer : that though I think a solid peace made at once , a much ...
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Page 269 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 269 - Superior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the long Lake ; thence through the middle of said long Lake, and the water communication between it and the lake of the Woods, to the said lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Page 270 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
Page 278 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 278 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 269 - Mississippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line...
Page 278 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said united States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries...
Page 279 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 272 - The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Page 271 - States a re-consideration and revision of all acts or laws regarding the premises, so as to render the said laws or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.