1To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 1 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...the first rang— Fulfill now your ardent wishes, and finish your Glorious carriere in philosophical tranquillity. After having now given the finishing stroke to the greatest revolution which the world ever beheld, and after having had a grate share in the foundation of an immense empire on the basis of Liberty and independence, you have acquired the greatest right to enjoy the remnant of...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 3 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
I hope you are not so entirely involved in the troublesome business of the world Politic, as to have abandon’d entirely the world of Nature, whose laws, made by the supreme wisdom are as constant, and inalterable as its Legislator himself. It would, indeed, be hard to me to concieve, that a man, a Philosopher so often and so......you are not lost to the world of Nature, tho many of your...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 7 April 1781 (Franklin Papers)
..., my dear friend, whow many wighty occupations take up your time and engross your attention. But however I can’t think you lost me entirely out of sight—it seems the En-glish put now whole the world at defiance. This shows, who much that haughty nation is to be feared, if it should acquire again the peacefull possession of N. America, and how necessary it is for the tranquillity of Europe...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 28 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...from whole Mankind as one of the greatest philosophers, and having finisth’d such a glorious carrere by settling your own country in peace and prosperity in reuniting the ties so unhappily broken between the two most respectable nations of the world, and blending them in one the happyest for their laws and liberties and the most powerfull, which ever existed in the world. I could wish to...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 14 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...somewhat at large my liberty, than to be in the way of communicating now and than to my Imperial Mistris some peaces of news or some particular intelligences or reflexions upon the present affaires of the world which she could not so well be informed of by her own ministers. You was so good as to approve of this reflexion and to promis me to communicate to me sometimes some informations...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 15 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
to try a similar experiment on mad men, thinking
that, as I found in my self my mental faculties improoved and as the world well knows,
that your mental faculties, if not improoved by the two strooks you recieved, were
certainly not hurt by them, it might ..., take now and than a trip again into the world of Nature. In the one you served your country, but in...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 26 February 1783 (Franklin Papers)
. The important share you have had in this revolution, which makes one of the most memorable epocha’s in the history of the world, must create a lively joy in your friends, and a sense of shame and envy in those, who laboured in vain to crush you, and to overturn your cause. I should like to observe now, in your...
8To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 18 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...best. You know allso, that I have a great deal of good and respectable friends in that country, who honour me with some degree of consideration. I believe indeed that I could be more usefull to the world and to my Royal mistress, if I had full liberty to stay where I pleased; for an experience of 10 years has teached me that the air of Vienna does not so much agree with my constitution...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 27 November 1782 (Franklin Papers)
than at the most August Court of the world.