...remarks, till the last week, which is the reason, why I have been so late in acknowledging your favor. Mr. Russel's remarks, besides the just praises of...above gold ; for we take care never to send back an otince of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon. I saw yesterday our friend Sir Alexander...

...of my days in." On hearing that Franklin was about to return to America, David Hume wrote to him: " I am very sorry that you intend soon to leave our...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which...

...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762: "I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day — "He has in no instance exhibited...

...— " I am very sorry that you intend to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good thiugs, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but you...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." On his return to Philadelphia he received the thanks of the Assembly for his many services to Pennsylvania,...

...America .has sent us many good things, — gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (7), &c. ; but ^ou are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the first...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which...

...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762 : " I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited...

...our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, <fec.; but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day,—"He has in no instance exhibited...

...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762 : " I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited...

...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762 : " I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....and, indeed, the first great man of letters for whom •-. wo are beholden to her." Aud most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, —...

...hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, — gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, and so forth ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." 1 Even eight years before that time, an eminent French scholar, in sending to Franklin, at Philadelphia,...