 | Ioan James - 2004 - 420 pages
...Up to this point Franklin had been strongly pro-British: 'I have long been of the opinion', he said, 'that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability...America; and though, like other foundations, they lie low and are little seen, they are nevertheless broad and strong enough to support the greatest... | |
 | Edmund Sears Morgan - 2004 - 344 pages
...Great Empire May Be Redwed to a Small One. Franklin still believed, as he had told Lord Kames in 1760, "that the Foundations of the future Grandeur and Stability of the British Empire, lie in America." But by 1766 he was convinced that the British Parliament could not be trusted to preserve or direct... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2004 - 330 pages
...in several land schemes, first in Nova Scotia and later in the American West. Although he believed that "the Foundations of the future Grandeur and Stability of the British Empire" lay in America, he spoke, as he said, "not merely as I am a Colonist, but as I am a Briton.""' The... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 pages
...receiv'd so much friendship, and friends whose conversations were so agreeable and so improving to me. THE FUTURE GRANDEUR AND STABILITY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE LIE IN AMERICA And thus in the summer of 1762, I departed the old world for the new, leaving Billy behind a little longer.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 pages
...receiv'd so much friendship, and friends whose conversations were so agreeable and so improving to me. THE FUTURE GRANDEUR AND STABILITY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE LIE IN AMERICA And thus in the summer of 1762,I departed the old world for the new, leaving Billy behind a little longer.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 606 pages
...premature parting. No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do, on the reduction of Canada ; and this is not merely as I am a colonist, but as I am a Briton....though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1917 - 554 pages
...No one," he wrote,11 " can more sincerely rejoice than I do, on the reduction of Canada; and this is not merely as I am a Colonist, but as I am a Briton....though like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure human... | |
 | Michigan Political Science Association - 1897 - 460 pages
...part unconscious, it was at the same time significant. Dr. Franklin, writing in London in 1760, said: "I have long been of opinion that the foundations...and stability of the British Empire lie in America." Writing in London in 1787, John Adams spoke of the Thirteen States "as destined to spread over the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 784 pages
...not opposed to the restoration of Canada to foreign hands on the strength of a John Bull conviction ' that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in America ' ? He drafted a basis for conciliation with Lord Chatham, no enemy of his country. As the dispute... | |
 | 1903 - 1300 pages
...letters. His farsightedness is illustrated in one of his cherished opinions, expressed to Lord Kames, " that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in America.'' He opposed the restoration of Canada to the French, saying: "If we keep it, all the country from the... | |
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No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada, and this is not merely as I am a Colonist but as I am a Briton. I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in... 
