Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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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

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe

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r Essays 13 embarass “a virtuous and able ministry,” and ren- der the negotiation for peace a work of infinite diffi- culty,” * there is no less danger that expectations too low, through want of proper information, may have a contrary effect; may make even a virtuous and able ministry less anxious and less attentive to the obtaining points, in which the honor and interest of the nation are essentially concerned; and the people less hearty in supporting such a ministry and its measures. The people of this nation are indeed respectable, not for their numbers only, but for their under- standing and their public spirit. They manifest the first by their universal approbation of the late pru- dent and vigorous measures, and the confidence they so justly repose in a wise and good prince, and an honest and able administration; the latter they have demonstrated by the immense supplies granted in Parliament unanimously, and paid through the whole kingdom with cheerfulness. And since to this spirit and these supplies our “victories and successes’ ? have, in great measure, been owing, is it quite right, is it generous, to say, with the Remarker, that the people “ had no share in acquiring them’? The mere mob he cannot mean, even where he speaks of the madness of the people; for the madness of the mob must be too feeble and impotent, armed as the government of this country at present is, to “over- rule,” 3 even in the slightest instances, the virtue “and moderation’ of a firm and steady ministry. While the war continues, its final event is quite * Remarks, p. 6. 2 1bid., D. 7. 31bid., p. 7. .760] TE

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