 Whitehead, who is very shrewd, soon after began to smoke it, and looking in my face said, /'// be hanged if this is not some of your American jokes upon us. The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a...  The Works of Benjamin Franklin - Pàgina 87per Jared Sparks - 1844Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1817 - 608 pàgines
...jokes ufion us. The reading went on and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit. And the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved ID my Lord's collection.' The intimate knowledge — ' the local notion,' as Mr. Burke calls it —... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pàgines
...jokes upon vs. The reading went on and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general rerdict that it was a fair hit. And the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my Lord's collection. < I don't wonder thai -iHutchinson should be dejected. jW It must be an uncomfortable thing to live among... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pàgines
...jokes upon vs. The reading went on and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit. And the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my lord's collection. i ! i .. i ii«'J -, I don't wonder that Hutthinson should be dejected. It must be an uncomfortable thing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pàgines
...jokes upon us. The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit : and the piece was cut out of the paper, and preserved in my lord's collection. " I don't wonder that Hutchinson should be dejected. It must be an uncomfortable thing to live among people... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 pàgines
...upon us.' The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit : and the piece was cut out of the paper, and preserved in my lord's collection." VII. EARLY in 1774 Franklin was dismissed by the ministry from his office of Deputy Postmaster of the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 pàgines
...fair hit : and the piece was cut out of the psper, and preserved in my lord's collection. " I don't wonder that Hutchinson should be dejected. It must...detest him. Yet I fancy he will not have leave to corne lióme, both because they know not well what to do with him, and because they do not very well... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pàgines
...upon us." " The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit ; and the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my lord's collection." * In his " Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One," the satire is even more trenchant. "... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 pàgines
...upon us." The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit ; and the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my Lord's collection." This was all very pleasant for Franklin, and increased his fame, especially among the Whigs, who were... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pàgines
...upon us.' The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit ; and the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my Lord's collection." Another incident which occurred at Lord Le Despenser's serves to show still another quality of his... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 pàgines
...upon us ! ' The reading went on, and ended with abundance of laughing, and a general verdict that it was a fair hit; and the piece was cut out of the paper and preserved in my Lord's collection." This keen and severe satire was first published ha the Public Advertiser and the edition was quickly... | |
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