 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 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 the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre'4,... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...BENJAMIN ) AND y FRANKLIN. DEBORAH ) 17Sto be placed over us both. "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 scepter,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 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,... | |
 | Washington (D.C.) - 1865 - 328 pages
...Franklin. By a codicil to his last will it is 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 of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre, he has merited... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...devoted to him." After bequeath.ing, 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 were... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 pages
...BENJAMIN ^ AND > FRANKLIN DEBORAH J 178 — to 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... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...therewith, according to my will made the seventeenth day of July, 17SJ. 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,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...therewith, according to my will made the seventeenth day of July, 1788. My flne crab-tree walking-etick, V, f M]"e ,q S 8 j K i M Z: Y b C rTp of Liberty^ I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind. General Washington. If it were a sceptre,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Printers - 1884 - 556 pages
...BENJAMIN -s AND i- FRANKLIN DEBORAH J to be placed over us both. 178— 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Washington (D.C.) - 1885 - 56 pages
...What, for instance, said plain-speaking old Benjamin Franklin ? " My fine crab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty," — these are the words of his Will, in 1789, — "I give to my friend and the friend... | |
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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. 
