 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...opening of their Parliament. I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing...time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more equitable treatment from this nation might be obtained for them as well... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1840 - 608 pages
...opening of their Parliament. I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing weight might in time be thrown into their uu* scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more equitable treatment from this nation might... | |
 | William Bullen (solicitor.) - 1843 - 152 pages
...till the opening of parliament; I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing...nation might be obtained for them as well as for us." In a subsequent letter, dated the 1st of September, 17T3, we find the following passage: — " It is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...that Assembly. "I found them," he says, " disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing...time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, •a more equitable treatment from this nation might be obtained for them as... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Catholics - 1855 - 360 pages
...patriots there, I staid till the opening of their parliament. / found them disposed to be friends to America, in which I endeavored to confirm them, with...theirs, a more equitable treatment from this nation (England) might be obtained for them as tveil as for us." When, in 1775, the Continental Congress resolved... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pages
...opening of their Parliament. I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing...time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more equitable treatment from this nation might be obtained for them as well... | |
 | John Waddington - Congregational churches - 1876 - 754 pages
...I found them disposed to befriends of America, in which disposition 1 endeavoured to confirm then, with the expectation that our growing weight might in time be thrown into their scales, and by joining our interest with theirs, might be obtained for them as well as for us, a more... | |
 | John Waddington - Congregationalism - 1876 - 798 pages
...found them disposed to be friends of America, in which disposition 1 endeavoured, to confirm then, with the expectation that our growing weight might in time be thrown into their scales, and by joining our interest with theirs, might be obtained for them as well as for us, a more... | |
 | Charles John Smith - Irish question - 1880 - 112 pages
...Americans asked from Ireland, and France, and Canada. " I found the people of Ireland," says Franklin, " disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavored...weight might in time be thrown into their scale, and justice be obtained for them likewise." Appeals from afar have more telling power with those who are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 608 pages
...disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation (hat our growing weight might in time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more, equitable treatment from this nation might be obtained for them as well... | |
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Parliament. I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing weight might in time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more equitable treatment... 
