Benjamin Franklin: “One of the greatest pleasures an author can have, is, certainly, the hearing his works applauded.”

By our greatly encreasing the demand and consumption of British manufactures, their price is considerably raised of late years; the advantage is clear profit to Britain, and enables its people better to pay great taxes; and much of it…

II. p. 118.--The truth is, that the Indians considered their lands as mere hunting-manors, and not as farms.

But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.

Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects.