History of New Hampshire, from Its First Discovery to the Year 1830: With Dissertations Upon the Rise of Opinions and Institutions, the Growth of Agriculture and Manufactures, and the Influence of Leading Families and Distinguished Men, to the Year 1874 |
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... John Taylor Gilman , CHAPTER LXVII . The Early Farm - House with its Furniture and Sur- roundings , CHAPTER LXVIII . Development of Political Parties , CHAPTER LXIX . Political Influence of the Clergy of New Hampshire , 238 CHAPTER LXX ...
... John Taylor Gilman , CHAPTER LXVII . The Early Farm - House with its Furniture and Sur- roundings , CHAPTER LXVIII . Development of Political Parties , CHAPTER LXIX . Political Influence of the Clergy of New Hampshire , 238 CHAPTER LXX ...
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... John Taylor Gilman , and pub- lished in other towns , with bonfires , bells , drums and other demonstrations of exultation . The New Hampshire delegates who signed that declaration , the most important ever published in human history ...
... John Taylor Gilman , and pub- lished in other towns , with bonfires , bells , drums and other demonstrations of exultation . The New Hampshire delegates who signed that declaration , the most important ever published in human history ...
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... John Langdon , Josiah Bartlett , John Taylor Gilman , John Pickering , Samuel Liver- more , Joshua Atherton and Joseph Badger sat in the council , to deliberate , discuss and vote upon this question of momentous interest . " Long time ...
... John Langdon , Josiah Bartlett , John Taylor Gilman , John Pickering , Samuel Liver- more , Joshua Atherton and Joseph Badger sat in the council , to deliberate , discuss and vote upon this question of momentous interest . " Long time ...
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... JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN . The Gilman family have been among the most distinguished in our commonwealth . Exeter was their home . The ancestor of this illustrious race first came to Hingham and became a freeman of Massachusetts . He followed ...
... JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN . The Gilman family have been among the most distinguished in our commonwealth . Exeter was their home . The ancestor of this illustrious race first came to Hingham and became a freeman of Massachusetts . He followed ...
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... John Taylor Gilman had held the office of governor eleven years . Governor Langdon , his successor , was a Revolutionary patriot , and had been during a large part of his life in high official stations . Joseph Pearson had been ...
... John Taylor Gilman had held the office of governor eleven years . Governor Langdon , his successor , was a Revolutionary patriot , and had been during a large part of his life in high official stations . Joseph Pearson had been ...
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Page 165 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 342 - Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
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Page 320 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 276 - An act to amend the charter and enlarge and improve the corporation of Dartmouth College." Among other alterations in the charter, this act increases the number of trustees to twenty-one, gives the appointment of the additional members to the executive of the state, and creates a board of overseers, with power to inspect and control the most important acts of the trustees.
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