Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Том 9R. W. Pomeroy, 1822 |
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... period when the cries of the frontier settlers , under the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians , pierced the hearts of the Virginians in the low countries , and the volunteers of Westmoreland invited him to lead them to protect ...
... period when the cries of the frontier settlers , under the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians , pierced the hearts of the Virginians in the low countries , and the volunteers of Westmoreland invited him to lead them to protect ...
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... period in the year 1773 , in both legislatures , several years after a similar instì- tution had been formed by the individual exertions of Richard Henry Lee . This last assertion rests on the faith of his letter to Mr. John Dickenson ...
... period in the year 1773 , in both legislatures , several years after a similar instì- tution had been formed by the individual exertions of Richard Henry Lee . This last assertion rests on the faith of his letter to Mr. John Dickenson ...
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... periods inactivity is certain destruc- tion , while bold temerity is often crowned with suc- cess ; he believed that to linger in doubt in such a state of affairs , might be ruin to their cause , and in this belief , he proposed the ...
... periods inactivity is certain destruc- tion , while bold temerity is often crowned with suc- cess ; he believed that to linger in doubt in such a state of affairs , might be ruin to their cause , and in this belief , he proposed the ...
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... period , and well merits the eulogy pronounced on the writ- ings of Congress , by the first Lord Chatham . Speak- ing in the house of lords , that nobleman thus express- ed himself : " when you consider their decency , firm- ness and ...
... period , and well merits the eulogy pronounced on the writ- ings of Congress , by the first Lord Chatham . Speak- ing in the house of lords , that nobleman thus express- ed himself : " when you consider their decency , firm- ness and ...
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... , amid such difficulties , attracted to Congress the sympathy and regard of foreign nations , while yet they knew not the object of the contest . But the period had now arrived , when this was to 44 RICHARD HENRY LEE .
... , amid such difficulties , attracted to Congress the sympathy and regard of foreign nations , while yet they knew not the object of the contest . But the period had now arrived , when this was to 44 RICHARD HENRY LEE .
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Страница 29 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Страница 34 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Страница 22 - Correspondence, that they communicate, with their several Corresponding Committees, on the expediency of appointing Deputies from the several Colonies of British America, to meet in general Congress, at such place annually as shall be thought most convenient: there to deliberate on those general measures which the united interests of America may from time to time require.
Страница 184 - And that this regulation shall be an article of compact, and remain a fundamental principle of the constitutions, between the thirteen original States, and each of the States described in the resolve.
Страница 161 - ... firmly to unite in the abhorrence of all such writings, and measures, as evidence a desire and design to break off the happy connection we have hitherto enjoyed with the kingdom of Great Britain, and our just and necessary subordination to the king, and those who are lawfully placed in authority under him.
Страница 161 - But, if you exert the means of defence which God and nature have given you, the time will soon arrive when every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
Страница 134 - States, in framing such further confederation between them, in making foreign alliances, and in adopting such other measures as shall be judged necessary for the preservation of their...
Страница 184 - That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the States described in the resolve of Congress of the 23d of April, 1784, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been personally guilty...