Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 4John Sanderson, Robert Waln W. Brown and C. Peters, 1828 - United States This work contains biographies on all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. |
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... less than two years after the peace of Paris , the fa- mous stamp act was passed , which , had it gone into operation , would not only have annually extorted an immense sum from the colonists , but subjected their property to the ...
... less than two years after the peace of Paris , the fa- mous stamp act was passed , which , had it gone into operation , would not only have annually extorted an immense sum from the colonists , but subjected their property to the ...
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... less fortitude than the succeeding congress of 1774 ; in fact , certain mem- bers appeared as timid as if engaged in a traitorous conspi- racy . Among the most conspicuous characters , James Otis appeared to be the best and boldest ...
... less fortitude than the succeeding congress of 1774 ; in fact , certain mem- bers appeared as timid as if engaged in a traitorous conspi- racy . Among the most conspicuous characters , James Otis appeared to be the best and boldest ...
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... less unfavourably of scepticism than formerly . So many things have been misrepresented , misstated , and erroneously printed , ( with seeming authenticity , ) under my own eye , as in my opinion to render those who doubt of every thing ...
... less unfavourably of scepticism than formerly . So many things have been misrepresented , misstated , and erroneously printed , ( with seeming authenticity , ) under my own eye , as in my opinion to render those who doubt of every thing ...
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... less distance than the width of Market Street , from me . The fire was so incessant , and so direct on the street that I had to return , that some gentlemen entreated me to wait a short time ; but , as the troops under my care were in ...
... less distance than the width of Market Street , from me . The fire was so incessant , and so direct on the street that I had to return , that some gentlemen entreated me to wait a short time ; but , as the troops under my care were in ...
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... less unfavourably of scepticism than formerly . So many things have been misrepresented , misstated , and erroneously printed , ( with seeming authenticity , ) under my own eye , as in my opinion to render those who doubt of every thing ...
... less unfavourably of scepticism than formerly . So many things have been misrepresented , misstated , and erroneously printed , ( with seeming authenticity , ) under my own eye , as in my opinion to render those who doubt of every thing ...
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Page 247 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 314 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 314 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 199 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 247 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 247 - 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...
Page 249 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 245 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Page 345 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.