 ... Of all the enviable things England has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty Island, which, compared to America, is but like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that...  The Chronicles of America Series - Σελίδα 51918Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1833 - 322 σελίδες
...Dorothea Blount. shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But 'tis said the arts delight to travel westward ? You have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 σελίδες
...keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But it is said the Arts delight to travel westward. You have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 σελίδες
...keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But it is said the Arts delight to travel westward. You have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 σελίδες
...keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds, than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests ? But it is said the Arts delight to travel westward. You have... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 468 σελίδες
...brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry, enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous, and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests?"1 He had long looked forward to the evening of life, the last... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 502 σελίδες
...to keep one's Shoes dry; why, I say, should that little Island enjoy in almost every Neighbourhood, more sensible, virtuous, and elegant Minds, than we can collect in ranging 100 Leagues of our vast Forests? But 'tis said the Arts delight to travel Westward. You have effectually... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - 1908 - 318 σελίδες
...like a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry," should "enjoy, in almost every neighborhood, more sensible,...virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests."* To which party did these " masses " adhere ? Were they Loyalist... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - 522 σελίδες
...but like a stepping Stone in a Brook, scarce enough of it above Water, to keep one's Shoes dry . . . enjoy in almost every Neighborhood more sensible,...virtuous and elegant Minds than we can collect in ranging a hundred Leagues of our vast Forests?"2 The answer was, "1 of course, simple, for in America the fortunes... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 σελίδες
...stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy, in almost every neighborhood,...ranging one hundred leagues of our vast forests?" To the island whose cultured and intelligent people he found so thoroughly congenial he was again ft-nt... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 σελίδες
...stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry ; why, I say should that little Island enjoy, in almost every neighborhood,...virtuous, and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging a hundred leagues of our vast forests?" (Bigelow's Works of Franklin, vol. iii. p. 233.) In fact, he... | |
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