National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from ...Johnson, Fry, 1862 - 488 páginas |
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... tion appears to have been first called to the subject on a visit to Boston , in 1746 , when he witnessed the experi- ments of Dr. Spence , who had lately come from Scotland . The arrival of a glass tube in Philadelphia , sent by the ...
... tion appears to have been first called to the subject on a visit to Boston , in 1746 , when he witnessed the experi- ments of Dr. Spence , who had lately come from Scotland . The arrival of a glass tube in Philadelphia , sent by the ...
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... tion , and on that memorable day of July , at the age of seventy , puts his neat , flowing signature to the Declara- tion of Independence . " We must be unanimous , " said Hancock , on this occasion , " there must be no pulling ...
... tion , and on that memorable day of July , at the age of seventy , puts his neat , flowing signature to the Declara- tion of Independence . " We must be unanimous , " said Hancock , on this occasion , " there must be no pulling ...
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... tion , there could be no doubt . legality of the tax was as well estab Three years were now passed by lished as the illegality of the forced Henry with his father - in - law , Shelton , commutation . The court sustained the the keeper ...
... tion , there could be no doubt . legality of the tax was as well estab Three years were now passed by lished as the illegality of the forced Henry with his father - in - law , Shelton , commutation . The court sustained the the keeper ...
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... tion by the people themselves was the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom ; that usage had confirmed this right in the colony : and , as a result from all this , his famous fifth resolu- tion : " Resolved , therefore , that ...
... tion by the people themselves was the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom ; that usage had confirmed this right in the colony : and , as a result from all this , his famous fifth resolu- tion : " Resolved , therefore , that ...
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... tion , read Doddridge with unction , and was so taken with Butler's Analogy , that we are told he at one time called the book his Bible . Wirt , in the enumeration of these and kindred virtues , hints at a passion for money which grew ...
... tion , read Doddridge with unction , and was so taken with Butler's Analogy , that we are told he at one time called the book his Bible . Wirt , in the enumeration of these and kindred virtues , hints at a passion for money which grew ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 371 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 154 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Página 85 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Página 438 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Página 239 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Página 25 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady who, in a dispute with her sister, said, ' I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right — il n'ya que moi qui a toujours raison.
Página 82 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Página 124 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Página 66 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Página 181 - We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear ; When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...