The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Band 2H. Perkins, 1835 |
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... appeared in America . After having assisted in setting the types , and printing the paper , young FRANKLIN was sent to distribute the copies . At this time , though yet a boy , he enjoyed the singular pleasure of being the admired ...
... appeared in America . After having assisted in setting the types , and printing the paper , young FRANKLIN was sent to distribute the copies . At this time , though yet a boy , he enjoyed the singular pleasure of being the admired ...
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... appearance of plate and china in our house , which afterwards , in a course of years , as our wealth increased , augmented gradually to several hundred pounds in value . " Such are a few of the interesting particulars communicated by ...
... appearance of plate and china in our house , which afterwards , in a course of years , as our wealth increased , augmented gradually to several hundred pounds in value . " Such are a few of the interesting particulars communicated by ...
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... events were on the eve of transpiring , and FRANKLIN appeared in England , no longer as simply a colonial agent , but as the representative of America . Thirty - nine years had elapsed since his 9 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... events were on the eve of transpiring , and FRANKLIN appeared in England , no longer as simply a colonial agent , but as the representative of America . Thirty - nine years had elapsed since his 9 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... appeared in 1777. The treaty with France , and the capture of Burgoyne , created of course a great sensation in England , and no sooner were they known than the British ministry began to talk of a reconciliation . Efforts , plain and ...
... appeared in 1777. The treaty with France , and the capture of Burgoyne , created of course a great sensation in England , and no sooner were they known than the British ministry began to talk of a reconciliation . Efforts , plain and ...
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... appeared there . At present he is employed with activity and perseverance in the management of his farms and buildings ; and he orders , directs , and pursues in the minutest detail , every branch of business relating to them . I found ...
... appeared there . At present he is employed with activity and perseverance in the management of his farms and buildings ; and he orders , directs , and pursues in the minutest detail , every branch of business relating to them . I found ...
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Seite 8 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Seite 6 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 8 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Seite 6 - We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver!
Seite 13 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Seite 9 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and...
Seite 3 - And that an exact inventory be taken of all such cannon and stores in order that they may be safely returned when the restoration of the former harmony between great Britain and these colonies so ardently wished for by the latter shall render it prudent and consistent with the overruling law of self preservation.
Seite 12 - ... short of despotism, since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers ; that the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy...
Seite 10 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...