 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the liritish empire lie in America ; and though like other foundations, they are low and little now, they arc, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure human... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...opinion, that the foundations of the future grandenr and stability of the British empire lie in Ameriea; and though, like other foundations, they are low and...nevertheless broad, and strong enough to support the greatest politieal strueture human wisdom ever yet ereeted. I am therefore by no means for restoring Canada.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...time before. "No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do, on the reduction of Canada ; and this is not merely as I am a colonist, but as I am a Briton....though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...time before. "No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do, on the reduction of Canada ; and this is not merely as I am a colonist, but as I am a Briton....though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...to the British possessions in America, he makes this far-sighted and statesman-like observation, " I have long been of opinion that the foundations of...though like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...opinion," he wrote to Lord Kames, "that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the Uritish empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...premature parting. No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do, on the reduction of Canada ; and this is not merely as I am a colonist, but as I am a Briton....though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...of Canada, Franklin said, " I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandness and stability of the British Empire lie in America;...though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1879 - 834 pages
...merely as a colonist, but as a Briton. I have long been of opinion," he writes ^in January, 1760, " that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability...though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are nevertheless broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1879 - 980 pages
...merely as a colonist, but и a Briton. I have long been of opinion," he writes in January, 1760, " that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie iu America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are nevertheless... | |
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No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada, and this is not merely as I am a Colonist but as I am a Briton. I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in... 
