A new day is at hand.

Its forerunners are here.

He has not seen the signs in the sky or heard the cocks crowing.
He is still asleep.

I know many men in England whom he could not buy." Only three days before the philosopher had had a talk with North at the urgent request of Howe, who, to his credit, was eager for reconciliation.

The King's friend and minister was contemptuous.
"I am quite indifferent to war," he had cynically declared at last.
"The confiscations it would produce will provide for many of our friends." It was an astonishing bit of frankness.
"I take this opportunity of assuring Your Lordship that for all the property you seize or destroy in America, you will pay to the last farthing," said Franklin.
This treatment was like that he had received from other members of the government since the unfortunate publication of the Hutchinson, Rogers and Oliver letters.