| Richard Tickell - 1779 - 96 pages
...religion is fatirized in Italian i— • * mi politics in Spanish and Dutch ^— H Ihear Washington ridiculed in Ruffian , and myfelf in all the jargon of Germany »— * I Cannot hear it. *— ^ Make Europe civil to America , or I'll follow Silas Deane 9 Yours , FRANKLIN. (tf )... | |
| Edward Kirk Rawson - 1899 - 466 pages
...Italian — my politics in Spanish and Dutch — I hear Washington ridiculed in Russian, and myself in all the jargon of Germany — I cannot bear it...Europe civil to America, or I'll follow Silas Deane. Your's, FRANKLIN. Ancien. [From page 50 of " The Green Box of Monsieur de Sartine, found at Mademoiselle... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 880 pages
...satirized in Italian. My politics in Spanish and Dutch. I hear Washington ridiculed in Russian, and myself in all the jargon of Germany. I cannot bear it. Make...Europe civil to America, or I'll follow Silas Deane." It is often said that the famous song, fa ira, of the French Revolution had its origin with Benjamin... | |
| Stacy Schiff - 2005 - 540 pages
...satirized in Italian. My politics in Spanish and Dutch. I hear Washington ridiculed in Russian, and myself in all the jargon of Germany. I cannot bear it. Make...Europe civil to America, or I'll follow Silas Deane." Franklin was not the only satirist to recruit an entomological narrator. Longer-lived than his mayfly,... | |
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