Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of IndependenceT. Mather, 1834 - 460 pages |
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... objects which they bad in view ; and amid the toils , and privations , and sufferings , which they were called to endure , they exhibited a patience and fortitude , rarely equalled in the history of the world . Of the revolutionary ...
... objects which they bad in view ; and amid the toils , and privations , and sufferings , which they were called to endure , they exhibited a patience and fortitude , rarely equalled in the history of the world . Of the revolutionary ...
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... object is , to speak of men who lived and flourished in the days of our revolutionary struggle , we have little to do with the motives which induced the first settlers of our country to seek an asylum in what was then an unexplored ...
... object is , to speak of men who lived and flourished in the days of our revolutionary struggle , we have little to do with the motives which induced the first settlers of our country to seek an asylum in what was then an unexplored ...
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... object the suppression of manufactures in America , and the continued dependance of the colonies on the parent country . In 1719 , the house of commons declared , " that the erecting of manufactories in the colonies , tended to lessen ...
... object the suppression of manufactures in America , and the continued dependance of the colonies on the parent country . In 1719 , the house of commons declared , " that the erecting of manufactories in the colonies , tended to lessen ...
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... object of no less importance to the governors themselves , the most of whom were sent to America to repair fortunes which had been ruined by extravagance at home . The disputes on this subject , in the province of Massachusetts , lasted ...
... object of no less importance to the governors themselves , the most of whom were sent to America to repair fortunes which had been ruined by extravagance at home . The disputes on this subject , in the province of Massachusetts , lasted ...
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... object . If they make a hat , or a piece of steel , an act of parliament calls it a nuisance ; a tilting hammer , a steel furnace , must be abated in America , as a nuiSir , I speak from facts . I call your books of statutes and ...
... object . If they make a hat , or a piece of steel , an act of parliament calls it a nuisance ; a tilting hammer , a steel furnace , must be abated in America , as a nuiSir , I speak from facts . I call your books of statutes and ...
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Adams adopted America appointed army arrival assembly attention became body Boston Britain British government British parliament Carolina character citizens Clymer Colonel colonies committee Connecticut constitution continental congress continued convention council court death declaration of independence Delaware delegates discharge distinguished duties early effect elected eminently England entered father favour fortune Franklin friends gentleman Gerry governor gress honour house of burgesses important Jefferson judge justice king latter legislature length liberty M'Kean Maryland Massachusetts measures ment mind minister Morris mother country native New-Jersey New-York occasion parent country parliament patriotism peace Pennsylvania period Philadelphia political possessed present president profession province received rendered represented resolution respect retired Rhode Island Richard Henry Lee ROGER SHERMAN royal Samuel Adams Sherman soon South Carolina spirit stamp act station tion town troops United Virginia vote Washington William WILLIAM WHIPPLE Witherspoon zeal
Popular passages
Page 391 - 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 424 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 2 - an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of sucli copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled, " an act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 68 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 64 - 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 63 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
Page 125 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Page 360 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by king James the first, the colonists aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities, of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Page 391 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 54 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies in behalf of themselves, and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.