Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. The examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin in the british house of commons

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5 Essays 123 bled, and ruined ourselves, to conquer for them; and now they come and tell us to our noses, even at the bar of this House, that they are not obliged to us,” &c. But his clamor was very little minded.” A few years since the editor stumbled upon an original edition of this Examination, in a pamphlet form, and bearing the following title: THE EXAMINATION OF DOCTOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RELATIVE TO THE REPEAL OF THE AMERICAN STAMP ACT IN MDCCLXVI MDCCLXVII, Price ONE SHILLING. No publisher’s imprint is given. In the margin, how- ever, and in a chirography which seems more recent than the printed text, are written what purport to be the “names of the interrogators.” When or by whom, or upon what authority, this list was made, there are no indications; but the fact that the list differs so widely from that given in Delaplaine’s, and the further fact that Franklin so frequently confesses his inability to recall the names of some of his interrogators, seem to justify me in giving this anonymous list here for what it is worth. As Grenville is always spelt Greenwille, and Burke Bourke, the presumption is that all the names were writ- ten by a foreigner, who had taken them from the lips of his informant. By the Speaker ; Nos. 1, 2, inclusive. “ Mr. Huske : Nos. 3 to 42, “ “ Lord Clare : . Nos. 43 to 49, 98 to 103, “ “ Mr. Townshend . Nos. 50 to 77, pe * Mr. Bourke . Nos. 78 to 89, 106, 107, “ 06]

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