 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...therewith, according to my Will made the seventeenth day of July, 1788. My fine crab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously' wrought in the form of the Cap of Liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...BENJAMIN ^ AND > FRANKLIN. . ^ DEBORAH ) . 178to be placed over us both. My fine crabtree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...therewith, according to my will made the seventeenth day of July, 1788. My fine crah-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the Cap of Liherty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...government of the State—not presuming to carry my views further. " My fine crabtree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...is devoted to him." After bequeathing, in the codicil to his will, his "fine crab-tree walkingstick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty," to Washington, Franklin adds, with one of his felicitous turns of expression, " If it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...therewith, according to my will, made the seventeenth day of July, 1788. My tine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head, curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General w ashington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...to his last will and testament, we find it thus disposed of: — " My fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head, curiously wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | Oliver Hampton Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 658 pages
...codicil to his last will and testament, we find it thus disposed of: " ' My fine crab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head, curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and to the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a scepter,... | |
 | George Washington Parke Custis - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 756 pages
...Franklin, in the following clause of the codicil to his will:— "My fine crab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 588 pages
...of course it is alien to our proper subject. It runs thus : — "My fine crab- tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
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My fine crabtree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre, he has merited it and would become it. 
