 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 510 pages
...AND > FRANKLIN DEBORAH ) BENJAMIN ] 178to 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 sceptre,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 1904 - 116 pages
...staff. Extract from codicil to Franklin '« will of July 17, 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, George Washington. If it were a sceptre he... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 pages
...BENJAMIN ) and v FRANKLIN DEBORAH ) 178to 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 sceptre,... | |
 | Literature - 1907 - 832 pages
...ALBERT H. SMYTH IV N his will Franklin bequeathed to George Washington a fine crabtree walkingstick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty. He had received it from Madame de Forbach, the dowager Duchess of Deux-Ponts. Another present... | |
 | Literature - 1907 - 922 pages
...ALBERT H. SMYTH IV N his will Franklin bequeathed to George Washington a fine crabtree walkingstick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty. He had received it from Madame de Forbach, the dowager Duchess of Deux-Ponts. Another present... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...your name.— ALPIERI, VITTORIO, 1785, The First Brutus, Dedication. My fine crab tree walking stick, of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre... | |
 | George Washington - 1911 - 84 pages
...Jp^2, page 17. — Extract from the Will of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. "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 was a sceptre,... | |
 | William Harvey Allen - Charities - 1912 - 496 pages
...Washington ", — money, houses, lands, bad debts, books, manuscript, " my fine Crabtree Walking Stick with a Gold Head curiously wrought in the Form of the Cap of Liberty ", gold watch, " the Botanic Description of the Plants in the Emperor's Garden at Vienna,... | |
 | Fremont Rider, Frederic Taber Cooper - Washington (D.C.) - 1922 - 620 pages
...Washington, "my friend and the friend of mankind." The will describes it as "my fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the Cap of Liberty. ... It was a present to me from that excellent woman, Madame de Forbach, the dowager Duchess... | |
 | United States - 1922 - 740 pages
...directed that it be deposited in the Department of State. 2. Benjamin Franklin's "Crab tree walking stick with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty," which was bequeathed by Dr. Franklin to Gen. Washington, and which Gen. Washington bequeathed... | |
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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. 
