 Would you not say, that you were free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict would be a breach of your privileges, and such a government tyrannical ? And yet you are about to put yourself under that tyranny, when you run in  Essays and Letters - Page 81by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 292 pages
...gentleman or a gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude ? Would you not say, that you are free, have a right to dress as you please, and that...are about to put yourself under that tyranny when yon run in debt for such dress ! Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...edict, forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude? Would you not say, that you were free, have a right...your privileges, and such a government tyrannical 1 And yet you are about to put yourself under that tyranny when you run in debt for such dress! Your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...on pain of imprisonment or servitude? wouli you not say, that you were free, have a right to drea ns you please, and that such an edict would be a breach...tyrannical And yet you are about to put yourself under that ty ranny when you run in debt for such dress ! Your en ditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude? Would you not say that you were free, have a right...to put yourself under that tyranny, when you run in debt for such dress! Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your liberty,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude ? Would you not say that you were free, have a right...dress as you please, and that such an edict would be в breach of your privileges, and «uch a government tyrannical 1 And yet you are about to put yourself... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American literature - 1847 - 1092 pages
...edict forbiiUmg you to drees like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude 1 Would you not say that you were free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edi.-t would be a breach of your privileges, and s«<-ha government tyrannical ? And yet you are sV«it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...edict, forbidding you to dress Like a. gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude ? Would you not say that you were free, have a right...to put yourself under that tyranny when you run in debt for such dress ! Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your liberty... | |
 | sir John Barnard - 1848 - 428 pages
...edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude ? Would you not say that you were free, have a right...to put yourself under that tyranny, when you run in debt for such dress ! Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your liberty,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...or a gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude 1 Would you not say that you were free, had a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict...tyrannical ? And yet you are about to put yourself under such a tyranny, when you run into debt for such dress ! Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 pages
...edict, forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude? Would you not say, that you were free, have a right...to put yourself under that tyranny when you run in debt for such dress! Your creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your liberty,... | |
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