 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...garrifons or armies, to keep them in fubjedlion. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink, and paper : They were led by a thread. They had not only a refpecl, but an affedtion for Great Britain ; for its laws, its cuftoms and manners j and even a fondnefs... | |
 | John Wilkes - Great Britain - 1786 - 460 pages
...garrifons, or armies, to keep them m fubji&iorii They were go* verted by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink, and paper. They were led by a thread. They bad flat only* refpeA, but an aflSeSifln fer Great Britain, for its laws, its cuftprns, jiml manners,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Colonies - 1803 - 604 pages
...colonies, coft the mother country nothing. * They were governed,' fays r Franklin, ' at the expence only of a little pen, ' * ink and paper ; they were led by a thread.' * In time of war, they contributed their fhare, and- fometimes more than their mare, to the extraextraordinary... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...appears to deserve the best ulieutiou of the reader. you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the cxpence only of a little pen, ink, and paper : they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...appears to deserve the best attention of the reader. * V you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink, and paper: they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect,... | |
 | Thomas Northmore - English poetry - 1809 - 274 pages
...murmur to the yoke of power ; They would become fit instruments to serve 158. Arc Unions, #c.— " They had not only a respect, but an affection for...Britain, for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of England were always treated... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 726 pages
...the people arc in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by 'this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink, and paper. They were led by a thread. They had not only i a respect,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper. They were led by a thread. They had not only a respect,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, orarmies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink, and paper: they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect,... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 650 pages
...the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed...; for its laws, its customs, and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain were always treated... | |
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They submitted willingly to the government of the crown, and paid, in their courts, obedience to the acts of Parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them... 
