 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...your fciences ; but when they came back " to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every ** means of living in the woods; unable to bear " either cold...to " build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; " fpoke our language imperfecUy; were there** fore neither fit for hunters, warriors, or coun" fellots... | |
 | James Anderson - Agriculture - 1800 - 632 pages
...in all your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold...or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly, and were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were, in short, good for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold...hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, nor kill an enemy ; spokeour language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold...nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...in all your sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold...imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, ^varriors, or counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods ; unable to bear either cold...We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, tho* -we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1809 - 466 pages
...all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, the}. were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold...were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...runners; ignorant of every means of living in the woods ; urable to bear either cold or hunger; krew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; -speak our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fir for hunters, warriors or counsellors;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods ; unable to bear either cold...We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, fhough we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods ; unable to bear either cold...take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language im" perfectly ; were therefore.neither fit for hunters, warriors, or counsellors ; They were totally... | |
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Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to... 
