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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1820 (search)
e, in 1769, he published a Natural history of Guiana. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Fellow of the Royal Society. While Franklin was in England on a diplomatic mission, Dr. Bancroft became intimate with him; and through the influence of the philosopher became a contributor to the philosopher became a contributor to the Monthly review. He was suspected by the British government of participation in the attempt to burn the Portsmouth dock-yards, and he fled to Passy, France. Soon afterwards he met Silas Deane, his old teacher, in Paris. and offered to assist him in his labors as agent of the Continental Congress. His ways were sometimes devious, and Mr. Bancroft, the historian, accuses him of being a spy in the pay of the British government, and of making a dupe of Deane. After the peace, Dr. Bancroft obtained, in France, a patent for the exclusive importation of the bark of the yellow oak, for the dyers, and afterwards he obtained a similar patent in E
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 (search)
vice of his countrymen struggling for political independence. In Congress, he advocated, helped to prepare and signed the Declaration of Benjamin Franklin. Independence; and in the fall of 1776 he was sent as ambassador to France, as the colleague of Silas Deane and Arthur Lee. To him was chiefly due the successful negotiation of the treaty of alliance with France, and he continued to represent his country there until 1785, when he returned home. While he was in France, and residing at Passy in 1777, a medallion likeness of him was made in the red clay of that region. The Franklin as an apprentice. engraving of it given is about half the size of the original. He took an important part in the negotiation of the treaties of peace. In 1786 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania, and served one term; and he was a leading member in the convention, in 1787, that framed the national Constitution. His last public act was the signing of a memorial to Congress on the subject of s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
gara River, in accordance with an act of legislature of Nov. 13, 1784......April 19, 1785 John Adams appointed minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain, Feb. 24, and received at the Court of George III.......June 1, 1785 Don Diego Gardoqui, minister from Spain to the United States, recognized by Congress......July 2, 1785 Treaty of amity and commerce concluded between the King of Prussia and the United States, and signed by Thomas Jefferson at Paris, July 28, Benjamin Franklin at Passy, July 9, and J. Adams at London......Aug. 5, 1785 Franklin returns to Philadelphia from France, after an absence of nine years, landing......Sept. 13, 1785 State of Frankland formed from western lands of North Carolina......November, 1785 Eleventh Continental Congress adjourns; 298 days session......Nov. 4, 1785 Twelfth Continental Congress meets at New York......Nov. 7, 1785 John Hancock, of Massachusetts, chosen president of the Continental Congress......Nov. 23, 1785
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
out 2,000 feet. The water has a temperature of 66° Fah., and issues at the rate of 100 cubic feet per minute. The ejecting force is supposed to be derived from a subterranean atmosphere of carbonic-acid gas, acting with a force of 60 atmospheres. The tubings are concentric, water rising between the outer and middle tubes, passing down between the middle and inner tubes to the bed of rock salt, where it is saturated, and then raised in the middle tube to the surface. The artesian well at Passy, near Paris, is probably the largest well of the kind that has ever been sunk. It is carried through the chalk into the lower green sands, which were reached at a depth of 1,913 feet, the bore finishing with a diameter of two feet. Six years and nine months were occupied in reaching the water-bearing stratum, when the yield was 3,349,200 gallons per day of 24 hours, subsequently increased to 5,582,000 gallons, and then continued at 3,795,000 gallons per day. The total cost of the well
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: Franklin (search)
rological conjectures; and transmitted to the Royal Society reports on French experiments in aeronautics. He entertained with a certain lavishness at his house in Passy; and he was a frequent diner-out, adored for his wit and good humour in the intimate coteries of Mme. Helvetius and Mme. Brillon. He set up for the amusement of himself and his friends a private press in Passy, on which he printed number of bagatelles of an accomplished and charming levity : The ephemera (1778), The morals of Chess (1779), The whistle (1779), The dialogue between Franklin and the gout (1780.) In 1784 he resumed work on his unfinished autobiography, and published Advice to Attic salt. When his fortune was made, he put by the pewter spoon and bowl of his apprenticeship; his biographers remind us that he kept a well stocked cellar at Passy and enjoyed the distinction of suffering from the gout. With affluence and years he acquired a palate, and gave a little play to the long repressed tastes of an E
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
be modelled in marble by another hand. In one part of his atelier a workman was engaged on the statue of Cuvier: it was thus that I witnessed a practical illustration of what I had heard, that great artists confine themselves to modelling, leaving the heavy working in marble to other hands. David is a great Republican. He talked much about Republicanism; and to his views on this subject I was doubtless indebted for some of the cordiality with which I was received. Dined with Mr. Wilks at Passy, the residence of Benjamin Franklin; find Wilks a striking illustration of the literary Swiss, who lets his pen out for hire to any side that will pay well; formerly the vigorous correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, and now that of the Standard, and writing for Tait and Frazer at the same time. April 7. Had a treat to-day at the Cour de Cassation. A very important case was to come on, involving a question of French constitutional law, in which Dupin, the Procureur-General and Preside
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
imate of the senator's discretion and influence, and his confidence in his kindly sentiments, by soliciting his friendly intervention in the embarrassed relations between Prussia and Denmark. The treaty then slept a long sleep, from which it has never waked. The unhappy negotiator, Raasloff, went out of office with his ministry, which was discredited by the failure, and leaving his country, soured with disappointment, passed the remainder of his life in France, Italy, and Germany, dying at Passy in 1883. Later Administrations have not been tempted to renew a negotiation which in Mr. Seward's hands proved to be a diplomatic fiasco. In Scribner's Magazine, November, 1887 (pp. 587-602), a lady, not of kin to Mr. Seward, but adopting his name, published an article entitled A Diplomatic Episode, full of insinuations which had no basis of fact, and of untrue statements as to the action of the Senate and of its committee, as shown by the records and Raasloff's own letters. The article
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 19: another European trip (search)
the rosiere, with her escort, entered and took the place assigned her. She was dressed in white silk, with a wreath of white roses around her head. A canopy was held over her, and at her side walked another young girl, dressed also in white, but of a less expensive material. This, they told me, was the rosiere of the year before who, according to custom, waited upon her successor to the dignity. Upon the mayor devolved the duty of officially greeting and complimenting the rosiere. M. Passy's oration followed. His theme was religious toleration. As an instance of this he told us how, during the funeral of the great Channing in Boston, Bishop Fenwick had caused the bells of the cathedral to be tolled, in homage to the memory of his illustrious friend. It appeared to me whimsical that I should come to an obscure suburb of Paris to hear of this. At home I had never heard it mentioned. Mrs. Eustis, Dr. Channing's daughter, on being questioned, assured me that she perfectly rem
The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The news. (search)
sketch, by Victor Huge of the house occupied by Franklin, in Passy, near Paris, in 1778. The sketch is accompanied by an autograph letter from the donor, or which the following is a literal translation: "In the year 1836 I happened to be at Passy, at the house of Mr Raynard, the author of the tragedy of the 'Knight Templars.' His white hair was flowing on his shoulders, and I said to him 'You wear your hair as Franklin used to do, and you look like him.' He answered me, smiling, 'This may pointed out to me a house which could be seen from his garden. 'It is there,' said he to me, 'that Franklin lived in 1778.' I sketched that house, which is now pulled down. This is this drawing. I think that this picture of Franklin's house at Passy is the only one in existence. I offer it to the United States Sanitary Commission. "I am happy that the Sanitary Commission, in doing me the honor to call upon me should have afforded me the occasion to renew the expression of my deeply fel