 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 608 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise* a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various...the effect of this kind of civil society seems to VOL. vn. 70 iru be, the depressing multitudes below the savage state, that a few may be raised above... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various...the effect of this kind of civil society seems to I be, the depressing multitudes below the savage state, that a few may be raised above it. My best... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...have lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization; for I assure you that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various...the savage state, that a few may be raised above it. My best wishes attend you and yours, being ever, with great esteem, &c., 13. FRANKLIN. [TO SAMUEL FRANKLIN.]... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for, I assure you, that in the possession and enjoyment of the various comforts of life, compared with these people, every Indian is a gentleman ; and the effect of this kind of civil society seems... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various...civil society seems to be, the depressing multitudes /£r. 66.] SEAT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 99 below the savage state, that a few may be raised above it.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various...civil society seems to be, the depressing multitudes . 66.] SEAT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY. below the savage state, that a few may be raised above it. My best... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 566 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various comforts of life, compared tp these people, every Indian is a gentleman, and the effect of this kind of civil society seems to... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Statesmen - 1876 - 394 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization. For, I assure you, that in the possession and enjoyment of the various comforts of life, compared with these people, every Indian is a gentleman ; and the effect of this kind of civil society seems... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization. For, I assure you, that in the possession and enjoyment of the various comforts of life, compared with these people, every Indian is a gentleman ; and the effect of this kind of civil society seems... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1884 - 564 pages
...lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various...civil society seems to be, the depressing multitudes AT. 66.] SEAT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY. g^ below the savage state, that a few may be raised above it. My... | |
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Had I never been in the American colonies, but were to form my judgment of civil society by what I have lately seen, I should never advise a nation of savages to admit of civilization ; for I assure you, that, in the possession and enjoyment of the various... 
