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One of our prisoners knew this fellow well; he had been promoted from the ranks, and was a Hercules for feats of strength; so that, after all, Sparks could not help himself." "Well, I'm really sorry; but as you say, Sparks's tender nature is always the ruin of him." "Of him! ay, and of you; and of Power; and of myself; of all of us.
I do not know about the romance in his family; but he went into the grocery-line, and has become a contractor now, enormously rich. He offers his arm to Columbia, who wishes to get home before dark; and takes pay in rifling her of golden kisses. Yes, by George, he does! Did the ship possibly give a name to the novel, or the novel a name to the ship? London, 1759. Sparks's Life and Letters, Vol.
Some of these parallel passages will be found in Sparks's Life of La Salle, where this remarkable fraud was first fully exposed. In Shea's Discovery of the Mississippi, there is an excellent critical examination of Hennepin's works. Such being the case, what faith can we put in the rest of Hennepin's story?
The passages from Cotton Mather's Diary, used in this article, are mostly taken from the Christian Examiner, xi., 249; Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical Society, i., 289, and iv., 404; and Life of Cotton Mather, by William B. O. Peabody, in Sparks's American Biography, vi., 162.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, in Sparks's Franklin, ii. 372. I remember that when I went to school I used to look with wonder on the title of a now forgotten newspaper of those days which was then often in the hands of one of the older scholars.
For the correspondence in full, see Hamilton's Works, volume iv; Sparks's Life and Writings of Washington, volume x; Randall's Life of Jefferson, volume ii.
See the answers in Sparks's Writ. of Wash. v. 3. p. 86. Camp between Rappahannock and North Anna, June 3rd, 1781, SIR, I have done myself the honor to write you many letters, but least some of them should have miscarried, which I much apprehend to have been the case, I shall repeat an account of the late transactions in this state.
With the highest respect I have the honor to be,~ See answer of Washington, Sparks's Writ. of Wash. v. 8. p. 156. Camp Williamsburg, Sept. 8th, 1781. MY DEAR GENERAL. Your letter of the 2d September is just come to hand. Mine of yesterday mentioned that the ships in York river had gone down. Inclosed is the account of an engagement off the capes.
Ledyard's Journal of Cook's Last Voyage, Hartford, 1783, and Sparks's Life of Ledyard, Cambridge, 1829.
Jared Sparks's excellent edition of the 'Life and Works of Franklin, is the source of the greater part of the information we possess concerning him.... The libraries, the public records, and the private collections of England, France, and the United States, were so diligently searched by Dr.
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