The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Band 2H. Perkins, 1835 |
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... and the enslaved , their death and birth . " PHILADELPHIA , HENRY PERKINS , 159 CHESTNUT STREET . NEW YORK , MONSON BANCROFT , 389 BROADWAY . LONDON , O. RICH , 12 RED LION SQUARE . 1835 . Entered according to the act of congress , in the.
... and the enslaved , their death and birth . " PHILADELPHIA , HENRY PERKINS , 159 CHESTNUT STREET . NEW YORK , MONSON BANCROFT , 389 BROADWAY . LONDON , O. RICH , 12 RED LION SQUARE . 1835 . Entered according to the act of congress , in the.
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... death , our philosopher placed a stone , bearing the following inscription : — " 6 HERE LIE JOSIAS FRANKLIN , and Abiah his wife ; they lived together with reciprocal affection fifty - nine years , and , without private fortune ...
... death , our philosopher placed a stone , bearing the following inscription : — " 6 HERE LIE JOSIAS FRANKLIN , and Abiah his wife ; they lived together with reciprocal affection fifty - nine years , and , without private fortune ...
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... death was known , congress ordered a general mourning for him throughout America , of one month . In France , the expres- sion of public grief was highly flattering to his memory ; there the event was solemnized under the direction of ...
... death was known , congress ordered a general mourning for him throughout America , of one month . In France , the expres- sion of public grief was highly flattering to his memory ; there the event was solemnized under the direction of ...
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... death he left his son an ample and unembarrassed fortune . THOMAS JEFFERSON was educated at the college of William and Mary , in Williamsburg , and , after distinguishing himself there , by his habits of patience and labor , became a ...
... death he left his son an ample and unembarrassed fortune . THOMAS JEFFERSON was educated at the college of William and Mary , in Williamsburg , and , after distinguishing himself there , by his habits of patience and labor , became a ...
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... death , with the exception of excursions which business required , he resided altogether at Monticello . He indeed appeared occasionally before his countrymen , by publications of his private correspondence , which proved the same ...
... death , with the exception of excursions which business required , he resided altogether at Monticello . He indeed appeared occasionally before his countrymen , by publications of his private correspondence , which proved the same ...
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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...