 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 will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them...  Select Pieces - Page 44by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
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...We are however not the less oblig'd by your kind Offer, tho' we decline in accepting it; and to show our grateful Sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia...instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them. (Quoted in Noriega 376) Yet an acceptance of relativity, and hence the convertibility of cultural capital,... | |
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