 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...country at the expence only of a little pen, ink, and paper: they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain ; for its laws, its customs, and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...at the cxpence only of a little pen, ink, and paper : they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain ; for its laws, its customs, and manners, and eve'ha fondness for ks fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain... | |
 | Thomas Northmore - English poetry - 1809 - 274 pages
...yoke of power ; They would become fit instruments to serve 158. Arc Unions, #c.— " They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain, for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of England... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper ; they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain ; for its laws, its customs, and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1831 - 586 pages
...people about the year 1752, snys they were all loyal and submitted willingly to the government of ihe crown, or paid for defence cheerfully: "They were...its customs, and its manners, and even a fondness fur its fashion, not yet subsided. Natives of Great Britain were always treated with particular regard;... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1834 - 386 pages
...at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper — they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain — for its laws, its customs and manners, and even for its fondness for its fashions, which greatly increased the commerce." It was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...at the expense omy of u little pen, ink, and paper : they were lead by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain; for its laws, its customs, and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 564 pages
...at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper ; they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain ; for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Literary Criticism - 1848 - 662 pages
...providentially and strangely enough, into a large mass of mortar, and his great fall was harmless." "Dr. Franklin, describing the state of the people about...customs, and its manners, and even a fondness for In respect to the state of society among the early inhabitants of Philadelphia, Mr. Watson observes,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...people of America toward Great Britain before the passage of the Stamp Act, he said, " They had not only a respect but an affection for Great Britain, for...its manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain were always treated with particular regard... | |
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They were governed by this country at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper ; they were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain ; for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions,... 
