. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . ates, were merely fighting, as they hadfought a generation earlier, England in America. Theylonged to recover Canada. When they had convinced them-selves that their American allies would not consent to theirreturn as sovereigns to any part of the North American con-tinent, they liked better to leave their old dominions in thehands of England than struggle for their transfer to the eman-cipated British colonies. While Great Britain remained stilla neighbor, they believed the Republic would not be able todispens
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . ates, were merely fighting, as they hadfought a generation earlier, England in America. Theylonged to recover Canada. When they had convinced them-selves that their American allies would not consent to theirreturn as sovereigns to any part of the North American con-tinent, they liked better to leave their old dominions in thehands of England than struggle for their transfer to the eman-cipated British colonies. While Great Britain remained stilla neighbor, they believed the Republic would not be able todispense with the shelter of French protection. Franklin,who gauged human motives, especially when not altogethernoble, with unerring sagacity, was possibly more desirous toconvince Robert Livingston than himself convinced, whenhe wrote : The ideas of aggrandizement by conquest areout of fashion. The wise here think France great enough ;and its ambition at present seems to be only that of justiceand magnanimity toward other nations, fidelity and utilityto its allies.—Edinburgh
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