Biographia Americana: Or, A Historical and Critical Account of the Lives, Actions, and Writings of the Most Distinguished Persons in North America; from the First Settlement to the Present Time...D. Mallory, 1820 - 356 من الصفحات |
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... cele- brated for their elegance and fervour , but they are only to be found in the perishable columns of ' a newspaper or pamphlet . In 1790 a few letters passed between him and Mr. John Adams , then vice - president , in 3.
... cele- brated for their elegance and fervour , but they are only to be found in the perishable columns of ' a newspaper or pamphlet . In 1790 a few letters passed between him and Mr. John Adams , then vice - president , in 3.
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... president , in which the principles of government are discussed . This correspondence was published in 1800 . ADAMS , JOHN , LL . D. second president of the United States , and a political writer of consider- able reputation , was ...
... president , in which the principles of government are discussed . This correspondence was published in 1800 . ADAMS , JOHN , LL . D. second president of the United States , and a political writer of consider- able reputation , was ...
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... president of the United States , was , in the year 1796 , called by the almost unanimous suffrage of his fellow citizens , to fill the presidential chair , which had been vacated by the resignation of Wash- ington . This office he ...
... president of the United States , was , in the year 1796 , called by the almost unanimous suffrage of his fellow citizens , to fill the presidential chair , which had been vacated by the resignation of Wash- ington . This office he ...
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... president Washington , who afterwards selected him for the important post of minister re- sident to the Netherlands . From this period , until 1801 , he was successively employed as a public minister in Holland , England , and Prussia ...
... president Washington , who afterwards selected him for the important post of minister re- sident to the Netherlands . From this period , until 1801 , he was successively employed as a public minister in Holland , England , and Prussia ...
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... president of Harvard col- lege , but the infirm state of his health obliged him " to decline the honour . From this period , his health gradually declined , until the morning of the 4th July , 1808 , when he ended his mortal career ...
... president of Harvard col- lege , but the infirm state of his health obliged him " to decline the honour . From this period , his health gradually declined , until the morning of the 4th July , 1808 , when he ended his mortal career ...
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الصفحة 140 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us.
الصفحة 140 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell...
الصفحة 274 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
الصفحة 138 - Upon offering them to the house, violent debates ensued. Many threats were uttered, and much abuse cast on me, by the party for submission. After a long and warm contest, the resolutions passed by a very small majority, perhaps of one or two only. The alarm spread throughout America with astonishing quickness, and the ministerial party were overwhelmed. The great point of resistance to British taxation was universally established in the colonies. This brought on the war, which finally separated the...
الصفحة 224 - Having been initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero and other renowned persons among the ancients; and such as Sidney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, I liked them; they seemed rational.
الصفحة 1 - Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent political career.
الصفحة 216 - Quebec, in 1759, on the very spot, where he was doomed to fall, when fighting against her, under the banners of freedom. After his return to England, he quitted his regiment, in 1772, though in a fair way to preferment. He had imbibed an attachment to America, viewing it as the rising seat of arts and freedom. After his arrival in this country, he purchased an estate in New York, about...
الصفحة 139 - The meeting was awfully solemn. The object which had called them together was of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy of their councils.
الصفحة 314 - A Compleat Body of Divinity, in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism...
الصفحة 205 - IK-MI without an effort. Into every walk of literature and science he had carried this mind of exquisite selection, and brought it back to the business of life, crowned with every light of learning, and decked with every wreath that all the Muses and all the Graces could entwine.