 | Benjamin Franklin - 1815 - 336 pages
...brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners : ignorant of every means of living in the woods ; uAable to hear either cold or hunger ; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us they were bad runners,...either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabbin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 pages
...brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living ijn the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 pages
...formerly brought up at thecolleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners,...hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spok« our language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors,... | |
 | 1821 - 356 pages
...brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces • they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners,...hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 pages
...brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners...; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors,... | |
 | John Halkett - 1825 - 430 pages
...brought up at the colleges in your northern provinces. They were instructed in all your sciences : but when they came back to us, they were bad runners...kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor councillors : they were totally good for nothing. We are, however,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1825 - 324 pages
...the woods ; unable to bear either cold or hunger ; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, or counsellors : they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1828 - 286 pages
...; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad swimmers, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer or kill an enemy." If the clergy or professors -in the public seminaries are half a century behind... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1831 - 310 pages
...formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were inftructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of e?ery means of [living in the woods; unable to bear eithei cold or hunger ; knew neither how to build... | |
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We have had some experience of it — several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means... 
