Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Том 9R. W. Pomeroy, 1822 |
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... Britain , were not less important than the foregoing committees , and of these Mr. Lee was also a member . He knew , that in the convul- sion of states , courage and vigorous enterprize give safety ; in such periods inactivity is ...
... Britain , were not less important than the foregoing committees , and of these Mr. Lee was also a member . He knew , that in the convul- sion of states , courage and vigorous enterprize give safety ; in such periods inactivity is ...
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... Britain , in the name of this Congress , is the production of his pen , and an emblem of his mind ; its sentiments are sublime ; its style chaste and ele- gant ; its reproaches dignified , and its expostulations fervid . For eloquence ...
... Britain , in the name of this Congress , is the production of his pen , and an emblem of his mind ; its sentiments are sublime ; its style chaste and ele- gant ; its reproaches dignified , and its expostulations fervid . For eloquence ...
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... Britain had assembled on our shores , and with the timidity of conscious guilt , were invoking help from the In- dian and the slave ; and the towering navy of Eng- land , rode lordly along our coasts , discharging on our unprotected ...
... Britain had assembled on our shores , and with the timidity of conscious guilt , were invoking help from the In- dian and the slave ; and the towering navy of Eng- land , rode lordly along our coasts , discharging on our unprotected ...
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... Britain , is , and ought to be , totally dissolved . " 66 This motion , which was followed by a protracted debate of several days , was introduced by one of the most luminous and eloquent speeches , ever delivered by its illustrious ...
... Britain , is , and ought to be , totally dissolved . " 66 This motion , which was followed by a protracted debate of several days , was introduced by one of the most luminous and eloquent speeches , ever delivered by its illustrious ...
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... Britain ; determined to keep open a market , where men should be bought and sold , he has prostituted his negative for suppress- ing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce : and that this assemblage ...
... Britain ; determined to keep open a market , where men should be bought and sold , he has prostituted his negative for suppress- ing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce : and that this assemblage ...
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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...