 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.  The North American Review - Side 416redigeret af - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 sider
...if they appear to you well founded. I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver,...tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault, that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 sider
...if they appear to you well founded. I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver,...indigo, &,c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault, that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 sider
...regretted his departure. Mr. Hume wrote; "I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver,...indigo, &-c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her. It is our own fault, that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 sider
...to America, David Hume wrote to him: " I am very sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,— gold, silver,...indigo (?), &c.; but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed., the first great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 590 sider
...merge critical objection in honor and gratitude. What is the flippant sarcasm of the queer Madame dn Barry, that he ate asparagus like a savage, to intellectual...presence of the French Academy be cited as proof of persi/tdg-e, on the other, his frank expression of religious convictions to Dr. Stiles evidences a... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 490 sider
...intellectual Hume's assertion that " America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, etc., but you are the first philosopher"? If, on the one...persiflage, on the other, his frank expression of religious convictions to Dr. Stiles, evidences a deliberate faith in things unseen and eternal. If... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 492 sider
...intellectual Hume's assertion that " America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, etc., but you are the first philosopher " ? If, on the one...persiflage, on the other, his frank expression of religious convictions to Dr. Stiles, evidences a deliberate faith in things unseen and eternal. If... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 492 sider
...intellectual Hume's assertion that " America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, etc., but you are the first philosopher " ? If. on the one...persiflage, on the other, his frank expression of religious convictions to Dr. Stiles, evidences a deliberate faith in things unseen and eternal. If... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 sider
...was leaving England to return home in 1762: "I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver,...tobacco, indigo, &c.; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir... | |
 | Perseverance - 1862 - 310 sider
...— " I am very sorry that you 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, indeed, the first great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." On his return to Philadelphia... | |
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