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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
tee of inquiry was raised by the legislature. Benjamin Franklin, being examined, escaped with an admonition; J passionate master, often beat his apprentice,—Benjamin Franklin, then but seventeen years old, sailed clandestine, he adds, that I overdo in my character of Benjamin Franklin, for I am rather short in it. When the scientd began to investigate the wonders of electricity, Franklin excelled all observers in the marvellous simplicitringing of bells. With placid tranquillity, Benjamin Franklin looked Chap. XXIII.} quietly and deeply into system was imitated in every colony but Virginia. Franklin, who afterwards perceived its evil tendencies, assf the great commercial world; and the system which Franklin had advocated found an apologist in Pownall, and whrough the press, no one had been so active as Benjamin Franklin. His newspaper defended absolute freedom of s Falsehood alone dreads attack, and cries out for Franklin, II. 292, 310 auxiliaries, while Truth scorns the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
m its claims to the basin of the Ohio, and, at the same time, protect its northern frontier. Yet the sense of danger led the Pennsylvanians, for the first time, to a military organization, effected, by a voluntary system, under the influence of Franklin. He was the sole author of two lotteries, that raised Logan's Mss. above six thousand pounds, to pay for the charge of batteries on the river; and he found a way to put 1747. the country on raising above one hundred and twenty companies of mihiladelphia raised ten, of about a hundred men each. The women were so zealous, that they furnished ten pairs of silk colors, wrought with various mottoes. Of the Quakers, many admitted the propriety of self-defence. I principally esteem Benjamin Franklin, wrote Logan, for saving the country by his contriving the militia. He was the prime actor in all this; and when elected to Chap. XXIV.} the command of a regiment, he declined the distinction, and, as a humble volunteer, himself carried
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., F. (search)
adia, 445. Persecutes the Huguenots, II 174. War with the Five Nations, 419-423. Character of its monarchy, 467. Its rivalry with England, III. 115. Missions, 128. Contends for the fisheries and the west, 175. War with England, 176. Indian alliance, 177. War with the Iroquois, 189. Colonial boundaries, 192. Excludes England from Louisiana, 203. Sends Indians into New England, 214. Desires peace, III. 225 Extent of her possessions, 235. Builds Crown Point and Niagara forts, 341. Influence on the Ohio, 346. War with Spain, claims Texas, 353. War with the Natchez, 358. Its government of Louisiana, 364. War with the Chickasas, 365 With England, 450. Ill success of her fleets, 463. Franciscans in Maine, II. 136. Franklin, Benjamin, his character, II. 375. Defends freedom of the press, 395. His volunteer militia, 456. Frederica founded, II. 430. Frederick II., in. 452. Friends. See Quakers. Frobisher's voyages, I. 81. Frontenac's expedition, II. 182.