Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 3John Sanderson, Robert Waln W. Brown and C. Peters, 1828 This work contains biographies on all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. |
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... resolution being taken , he commenced his study in Philadelphia , under Dr. John Redman , a physician of the first eminence , who not only superintended carefully his pre- paratory studies , but encouraged afterwards the first essays of ...
... resolution being taken , he commenced his study in Philadelphia , under Dr. John Redman , a physician of the first eminence , who not only superintended carefully his pre- paratory studies , but encouraged afterwards the first essays of ...
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... resolve themselves into nothing . Studies of no kind will confer in- tellect or wisdom upon fools . But a small portion of man- kind are fitted for the occupation of letters . The greater mass are designed for more humble , though ...
... resolve themselves into nothing . Studies of no kind will confer in- tellect or wisdom upon fools . But a small portion of man- kind are fitted for the occupation of letters . The greater mass are designed for more humble , though ...
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John Sanderson, Robert Waln. From the facility he discovered in learning the rudiments of his native language , his parents believed him endowed with more than ordinary genius , and resolved to raise.
John Sanderson, Robert Waln. From the facility he discovered in learning the rudiments of his native language , his parents believed him endowed with more than ordinary genius , and resolved to raise.
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John Sanderson, Robert Waln. with more than ordinary genius , and resolved to raise him to the profession of a clergyman . He was , therefore , placed in a grammar school to receive the requisite instructions . He engaged himself with so ...
John Sanderson, Robert Waln. with more than ordinary genius , and resolved to raise him to the profession of a clergyman . He was , therefore , placed in a grammar school to receive the requisite instructions . He engaged himself with so ...
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... resolution in which he engaged the companions of his recreations , he displayed a manifest su- periority both of ingenuity and bodily accomplishments , and soon procured amongst them a reputation for capacity and courage . But that ...
... resolution in which he engaged the companions of his recreations , he displayed a manifest su- periority both of ingenuity and bodily accomplishments , and soon procured amongst them a reputation for capacity and courage . But that ...
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Page 373 - States, in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.
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Page 367 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 163 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Page 205 - 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...
Page 196 - Let Us consider the issue. Let us look to the end. Let us weigh and consider, before we advance to those measures, which must bring on the most trying and terrible struggle this country ever saw.