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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
No date of the day. The P. S. is 22 August. The opposition during this reign will always be strong, for the cabinet will always be divided; but the genius of the nation, concentrating itself on commerce and Colonies, compensates the inferiority of the men in power, and makes great advances without their guidance. My position, observed Choiseul as he contemplated, alike in Asia and in America, the undisputed ascendency of the nation which he called his enemy, From the Dispatch of the fourth of August. is the most vexatious possible; I see the ill; I do not see the remedy. Anxious to send none but the most accurate accounts, Durand made many inquiries of Franklin, and asked for all his political writings. That intriguing nation, said Franklin, Franklin to his son, 28 August, 1767; Writings, VII. 357. would like very well to blow up the coals between Britain and her Colonies; but I hope we shall give them no opportunity. In England, observed Durand, Durand to Choiseul, 11 A