 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...treated me with great civility, makes me visits, &c. I fancy that intriguing nation would like very \vell to meddle on occasion, and blow up the coals between...Pringle. We propose to visit Paris. Durand has given me letters of recommendation to the Lord knows who. I am told I shall meet with great respect there... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - France - 1817 - 560 pages
...comble de politesses, etne cesse de me rendre des visites. J'imagine que la France (i) (i) «Ifancy that intriguing nation would like very well to meddle on occasion, and blow up the coals between Briuin and her colonies. » ne serait pas fâchée de profiter de la circonstance, et de souffler la... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...invited me to dine with him, was very inquisitive, treated me with great civility, makes me visits, &c. I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well...meddle on occasion, and blow up the coals between Great Britain and her colonies; but I hope we shall give them no opportunity." Dr. Franklin was right... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...another stage of the business, he had called the French " an intriguing nation," who would be glad to " meddle on occasion, and blow up the coals between Britain and her colonies" (i. 293). Franklin was strangely mistaken in the hopes he entertained of a speedy termination to the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...invited me to dine with him, was very inquisitive, treated me with great civility, makes me visits, &c. I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well to meddle on this occasion, and blow up the coals between Gnat Britain and her colonies ; but I hope we shall gire... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 546 pages
...intriguing nation, would like very well to meddle, on this occasion, and blow up the coals between Great Britain and her colonies, but I hope we shall give them no opportunity.''* As the contest became serious, it claimed the particular attention of the French Minister, who, in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...invited me to dine with him, was very inquisitive, treated me with great civility, makes me visits, &c. I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well to meddle on this occasion, and blow up the coals between Great Britain and her colonies ; but I hope we shall give... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...caresses of the French ambassador, and his inquisitiveness about the affairs of America, he adds — " I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well...colonies ; but I hope we shall give them no opportunity." Yet he adds that he is setting off on a visit to Paris, provided with letters of introduction from... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...caresses of the French ambassador, and his inquisitiveness about the affairs of America, he adds — " I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well...colonies ; but I hope we shall give them no opportunity." Yet he adds that he is setting off on a visit to Paris, provided with letters of introduction from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...invited me to dine with him, was very inquisitive, treated me with great civility, makes me visits, &,c. I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well...Pringle. We propose to visit Paris. Durand has given me letters of recommendation to the Lord knows who. I am told I shall meet with gr*eat respect there... | |
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I fancy that intriguing nation would like very well to meddle on occasion, and blow up the coals between Britain and her colonies; but I hope we shall give them no opportunity. 
