Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan

Author:Edmund S. Morgan [Morgan, Edmund S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-300-13022-5
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

As to my situation here nothing can be more agreeable, especially as I hope for less embarrasment from the new minister. A general respect paid me by the learned, a number of friends and acquaintance among them with whom I have a pleasing intercourse; a character of so much weight that it has protected me when some in power would have done me injury, and continued me in an office they would have deprived me of; my company so much desired that I seldom dine at home in winter, and could spend the whole summer in the country houses of inviting friends if I chose it. Learned and ingenious foreigners that come to England, almost all make a point of visiting me, for my reputation is still higher abroad than here; several of the foreign ambassadors have assiduously cultivated my acquaintance, treating me as one of their corps, partly I believe from the desire they have from time to time of hearing something of American affairs, an object become of importance in foreign courts, who begin to hope Britain’s alarming power will be diminished by the defection of her Colonies; and partly that they may have an opportunity of introducing me to the gentlemen of their country who desire it. The K[ing]. too has lately been heard to speak of me with great regard.

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