 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
 | George W. Lindsay, Charles C. Conley, Charles H. Litchman - Fraternal organizations - 1893 - 664 pages
...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...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Success of a Missionary. — Those who have attempted to Christianize the Indians complain that they... | |
 | Albert Ross Parsons - Astrology - 1893 - 472 pages
...are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though wedecline accepting it ; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia...education, instruct them in all we know, and make men ofiheni.' " Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency... | |
 | Examinations - 1893 - 408 pages
...is thus marked by every act which may defme a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. c Having frequent occasions to hold public councils...acquired great order and decency in conducting them. 1 Analyze by diagram or otherwise sentence (b). 8 2 Parse the following words in the exercise : between,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Conduct of life - 1894 - 480 pages
...badly. They were not fit for hunters, warriors, or councilors ; they were totally good for nothing. " If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." In the great race of life common sense has the right of way. Wealth, a diploma, a pedigree, talent,... | |
 | Nelson Appleton Miles, Marion Perry Maus - Indians of North America - 1896 - 616 pages
...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...of them.' "Having frequent occasions to hold public counsels, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1896 - 488 pages
...badly. They were not fit for hunters, warriors, or councilors ; they were totally good for nothing. "If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." In the great race of life common sense has the right of way. Wealth, a diploma, a pedigree, talent,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...badly. They were not fit for hunters, warriors, or councilors ; they were totally good for nothing. "If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." In the great race of life common sense has the right of way. Wealth, a diploma, a pedigree, talent,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - American literature - 1899 - 442 pages
...are however not the less 60 obliged by your kind offer, though we decline 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." 65 Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...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...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.' " In a more concrete form, too. Franklin testified to the slight value he placed upon college training.... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 pages
...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...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them. son William and his nephew James were properly taught, but he sent neither to a university. When William... | |
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