Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1006296646

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19592

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Somary, Felix http://d-nb.info/gnd/119189518

Title:: Bankpolitik

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck)

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 289 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Der Geldmarkt

Collection:: Economics Books

Benjamin Franklin [1760 The present war teaches us, that disputes arising in America may be an occasion of embroiling nations, who have no concerns there. If the French remain in Canada and Louisiana, fix the boundaries as you will between us and them, we must border on each other for more than fifteen hundred miles. The people that inhabit the frontiers are generally the refuse of both nations, often of the worst morals, and the least discretion; remote from the eye, the prudence, and the restraint of government. In- juries are therefore frequently, in some part or other of so long a frontier, committed on both sides, re- sentment provoked, the colonies are first engaged, and then the mother countries. And two great nations can scarce be at war in Europe, but some other prince or state thinks it a convenient oppor- tunity to revive some ancient claim, seize some advantage, obtain some territory, or enlarge some power at the expense of a neighbour. The flames of war, once kindled, often spread far and wide, and the mischief is infinite. Happy it proved to both nations, that the Dutch were prevailed on finally to cede the New Netherlands (now the province of New York) to us at the peace of 1674; a peace that has ever since continued between us, but must have been frequently disturbed, if they had retained the pos- session of that country, bordering several hundred miles on our colonies of Pennsylvania westward, Connecticut and the Massachusetts eastward. Nor is it to be wondered at, that people of different lan- guage, religion, and manners, should in those remote parts engage in frequent quarrels, when we find that 33

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