The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Band 2H. Perkins, 1835 |
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... Congress , John Jay , President of Congress , Chief Justice U. S. Patrick Henry , Major - General Joseph Warren , Pages . 20 16 10 • 16 8 6 Major - General Henry Knox , Major - General David Wooster , 10 Major - General Benjamin Lincoln ...
... Congress , John Jay , President of Congress , Chief Justice U. S. Patrick Henry , Major - General Joseph Warren , Pages . 20 16 10 • 16 8 6 Major - General Henry Knox , Major - General David Wooster , 10 Major - General Benjamin Lincoln ...
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... congress at Albany ; to this , FRANKLIN was named as deputy , and on the route , he digested a plan of union , regulating all the great political interests of the colonies and the mother country . His plan was adopted , congress ...
... congress at Albany ; to this , FRANKLIN was named as deputy , and on the route , he digested a plan of union , regulating all the great political interests of the colonies and the mother country . His plan was adopted , congress ...
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... congress , proves how sincerely he loved his native country , and what care he took of her interests while residing in his official capacity at the court of France . These letters added to his own memoirs and works , afford ample ...
... congress , proves how sincerely he loved his native country , and what care he took of her interests while residing in his official capacity at the court of France . These letters added to his own memoirs and works , afford ample ...
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... congress . At the period when Lord Chatham proposed his plan for a recon- ciliation between the colonies and the parent country , Dr. FRANKLIN attended behind the bar , in the house of lords . While Chatham was using his powerful ...
... congress . At the period when Lord Chatham proposed his plan for a recon- ciliation between the colonies and the parent country , Dr. FRANKLIN attended behind the bar , in the house of lords . While Chatham was using his powerful ...
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... congress . Dr. FRANKLIN served on many of the most arduous of the com- mittees of that body , particularly as a member of the committee of safety , and of that of foreign correspondence , where he exerted all his influence in favor of ...
... congress . Dr. FRANKLIN served on many of the most arduous of the com- mittees of that body , particularly as a member of the committee of safety , and of that of foreign correspondence , where he exerted all his influence in favor of ...
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admiration afterwards American appointed army attention battle BAYARD became Boon Boston British British army BROOKS CALHOUN Captain Carolina character Colonel Colonel HOWARD Colonel HUMPHREYS colonies command commenced committee conduct confidence congress Connecticut constitution continued court DANIEL BOON daughter devoted distinguished Dutchess county duty early elected eloquence eminent enemy engaged father favor feelings FRANCIS BARBER FRANKLIN friends frigate gave governor HAMILTON honor HOSACK hundred institution interest James Edward Smith JEFFERSON JOHN EAGER HOWARD justice labor legislature letters literary March Maryland Massachusetts ment military militia mind nation native never object occasion opinion party patriotism period Philadelphia political practice president profession received regiment rendered reputation resolution respect retired returned SCHUYLER senate society soon South Carolina spirit talents Ticonderoga tion took treaty troops United views Virginia Washington WEBSTER Yale college yellow fever York
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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...