 I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has a vote in public affairs, lives in a tidy, warm house, has plenty of good food and fuel, with whole clothes from head to foot, the manufacture, perhaps, of his own family....  Four American Leaders - Página 27por Charles William Eliot - 1906 - 124 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 páginas
...wretchedness, in dirty hovels of mud and straw, and clothed only in rags. I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...own family. Long may they continue in this situation ! But, if they should ever envy the trade of these countries, I can put them in a way to obtain a share... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...wretchedness, in dirty hovels of mud and straw, and clothed only in rags. I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...tidy, warm house, has plenty of good food and fuel, withwhole clothes from head to foot, the manufacture, perhaps, of his own family. Long may they continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 páginas
...wretchedness, in dirty hovels of mud and straw, and clothed only in rags. I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...own family. Long may they continue in this situation ! But, if they should ever envy the trade of these countries, I can put them in a way to obtain a share... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 páginas
...peasantry struck him with astonishment and dismay. "I thought often," he wrote, "of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...own family. Long may they continue in this situation !" Continuing his journey into Scotland, where he remarked that most of the peasantry still went barefoot,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 páginas
...wretchedness, in dirty hovels of mud and straw, and clothed only in rags. I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...own family. Long may they continue in this situation ! But, if they should ever envy the trade of these countries, I can put them in a way to obtain a share... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 páginas
...wretchedness, in dirty hovels of mud and straw, and clothed only in rags. I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...own family. Long may they continue in this situation ! But, if they should ever envy the trade of these countries, I can put them in a way to obtain a share... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 páginas
...his benevolent heart with astonishment and dismay. He writes, " I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a free-holder, has...family. Long may they continue in this situation." In the year 1773, Franklin spent several weeks in the beautiful mansion of his friend, Lord Despencer.... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 páginas
...his benevolent heart with astonishment and dismay. He writes, " I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a free-holder, has...family. Long may they continue in this situation." In the year 1773, Franklin spent several weeks in the beautiful mansion of his friend, Lord Despencer.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 564 páginas
...wretchedness, in dirty hovels of mud and straw, and clothed only in rags. I thought often of the happiness of New England, where every man is a freeholder, has...own family. Long may they continue in this situation ! But, if they should ever envy the trade of these countries, I can put them in a way to obtain a share... | |
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