 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) - 1885 - 68 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1886 - 654 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... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1887 - 360 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 of mankind,... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 pages
...of therewith, according to my will made the 17th day of July 1788. ' 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1888 - 346 pages
...individual's self. Franklin made no apology when he left Washington his " fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap A book may be thought not so good a keepsake as some others, because it is not so durable. In the present... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1891 - 234 pages
...Washington and , Robert Washington of Chotanck^ I give my other two * "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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - United States - 1895 - 268 pages
...Reed, wife of Colonel Joseph Reed, so long secretary of Washington. "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... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pages
...expected. One of Franklin's private bequests was to Washington : " 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... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...may fitly close with Franklin's words, in a 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... | |
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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. 
