The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His AutobiographyPhillips, Sampson, 1857 - 488 pages |
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... hundreds of per- sons had been plundered and slain , families driven from their homes , and a state of constant disquiet and alarm produced among the settlers , who were goaded to exasper- ation by the cruelties that had been practised ...
... hundreds of per- sons had been plundered and slain , families driven from their homes , and a state of constant disquiet and alarm produced among the settlers , who were goaded to exasper- ation by the cruelties that had been practised ...
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... hundred men . They were inflamed by exasperation at once against the Indians and the Quakers , looking upon the latter , through their opposition to defensive measures , as aiders and abettors of the barbarities inflicted by the former ...
... hundred men . They were inflamed by exasperation at once against the Indians and the Quakers , looking upon the latter , through their opposition to defensive measures , as aiders and abettors of the barbarities inflicted by the former ...
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... hundred miles , and did not get home till the beginning of November . He was accompanied , during a considerable part of the journey , by his daughter , on horseback . Governor Penn was no more fortunate than his pre- decessors in ...
... hundred miles , and did not get home till the beginning of November . He was accompanied , during a considerable part of the journey , by his daughter , on horseback . Governor Penn was no more fortunate than his pre- decessors in ...
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... hundred of his friends to Chester , where he was to go on board his vessel . He sailed the next day , but was detained a night in the Dela- ware . He arrived at Portsmouth , in England , after a voyage of thirty days . Proceeding at ...
... hundred of his friends to Chester , where he was to go on board his vessel . He sailed the next day , but was detained a night in the Dela- ware . He arrived at Portsmouth , in England , after a voyage of thirty days . Proceeding at ...
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... hundred thousand pounds a year , to be divided among them ; that the proposition of taxing them in Parliament was , therefore , both cruel and unjust ; that , by the constitution of the Colonies , their business was with the king in ...
... hundred thousand pounds a year , to be divided among them ; that the proposition of taxing them in Parliament was , therefore , both cruel and unjust ; that , by the constitution of the Colonies , their business was with the king in ...
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