Benjamin Franklin: “What then avails it to the honour of the present proprietors, that our founder and their father gave us privileges, if…”

But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.

With these sentiments he left England; but when, on his arrival in America, he found the war begun, and that there was no receding, no man entered more warmly into the interests of what he then considered as his country, in opposition to…

As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do it.

They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expences, so that having no chance for great places and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no…