Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 8R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... adopted , and entered at once into a long and able controversy with the governor on the subject of their violated rights . They passed strong resolutions , declaring the assumption of power by the British parliament to be in direct vio ...
... adopted , and entered at once into a long and able controversy with the governor on the subject of their violated rights . They passed strong resolutions , declaring the assumption of power by the British parliament to be in direct vio ...
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... adopt measures for the defence and safety of the province . They declared the counsellors appointed by the king and ministry unconstitutional ; they recommended the people to refrain as much as possible from purchasing imported articles ...
... adopt measures for the defence and safety of the province . They declared the counsellors appointed by the king and ministry unconstitutional ; they recommended the people to refrain as much as possible from purchasing imported articles ...
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... adopted when the bloody scenes of Lex- ington and Concord occurred , and the war which had been so long dreaded , but which also had been so long inevitable , actually commenced . About this period a circumstance occurred with regard to ...
... adopted when the bloody scenes of Lex- ington and Concord occurred , and the war which had been so long dreaded , but which also had been so long inevitable , actually commenced . About this period a circumstance occurred with regard to ...
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... adoption , and that if they are to have any value , they must be reserved for extra- ordinary occasions , not bestowed ... adopted . In the following month we find Mr. Gerry on a com- mittee , reporting a plan for the operations of the ...
... adoption , and that if they are to have any value , they must be reserved for extra- ordinary occasions , not bestowed ... adopted . In the following month we find Mr. Gerry on a com- mittee , reporting a plan for the operations of the ...
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... adopt those vigorous measures which were ultimately crowned with such signal success . In the journals of congress of the fifteenth of Novem- ber , 1777 , we find the following singular resolution : " That a committee of three be ...
... adopt those vigorous measures which were ultimately crowned with such signal success . In the journals of congress of the fifteenth of Novem- ber , 1777 , we find the following singular resolution : " That a committee of three be ...
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Page 301 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 266 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page 51 - 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 211 - England, sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you, when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 38 - STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Page 266 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 263 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said Crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the Colonies, for the preservation of internal peace, virtue, and good order, as well as for the defence of their lives, liberties, and properties, against the hostile invasions and cruel depredations of their enemies.
Page 307 - The king replied, as quick as lightning, " An honest man will never have any other.
Page 307 - The King then asked me whether I came last from France, and upon my answering in the affirmative, he put on an air of familiarity, and smiling, or rather laughing, said : " There is an opinion among some people that you are not the most attached of all your countrymen to the manners of France.