Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of IndependenceT. Mather, 1832 - 460 páginas |
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... Roger Sherman , 159 Samuel Huntington , 169 William Williams , 174 Oliver Wolcott , 179 NEW - YORK DELEGATION . William Floyd , 183 Philip Livingston 196 Francis Lewis , 193 Lewis Morris , 197 Henry Misner , ( Sce note , page 183. ) NEW ...
... Roger Sherman , 159 Samuel Huntington , 169 William Williams , 174 Oliver Wolcott , 179 NEW - YORK DELEGATION . William Floyd , 183 Philip Livingston 196 Francis Lewis , 193 Lewis Morris , 197 Henry Misner , ( Sce note , page 183. ) NEW ...
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... ROGER SHERMAN , and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON . " It is usual when committees are elected by ballot , that their members are arranged in order , according to the number of votes which each has received . Mr. Jefferson , therefore , probably ...
... ROGER SHERMAN , and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON . " It is usual when committees are elected by ballot , that their members are arranged in order , according to the number of votes which each has received . Mr. Jefferson , therefore , probably ...
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... of the age ; but his conversation , and dress , and habits of life , plainly showed that he belonged to a more primitive generation . THE CONNECTICUT DELEGATION . ROGER SHERMAN , SAMUEL HUNTINGTON , 14 WILLIAM ELLERY . 157.
... of the age ; but his conversation , and dress , and habits of life , plainly showed that he belonged to a more primitive generation . THE CONNECTICUT DELEGATION . ROGER SHERMAN , SAMUEL HUNTINGTON , 14 WILLIAM ELLERY . 157.
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... ROGER SHERMAN . ROGER SHERMAN , the subject of the present memoir , was a native of Newton , Massachusetts , where he was born on the 19th of April , 1721. His ancestors were from Dedham , in England , whence they removed to America ...
... ROGER SHERMAN . ROGER SHERMAN , the subject of the present memoir , was a native of Newton , Massachusetts , where he was born on the 19th of April , 1721. His ancestors were from Dedham , in England , whence they removed to America ...
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... Roger on foot , with his tools on his back . At New - Milford , he commenced business as a shoemaker ; but not long after he relinquished his trade , having entered into partnership with his older ... ROGER SHERMAN . 159 Roger Sherman,
... Roger on foot , with his tools on his back . At New - Milford , he commenced business as a shoemaker ; but not long after he relinquished his trade , having entered into partnership with his older ... ROGER SHERMAN . 159 Roger Sherman,
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Términos y frases comunes
Adams adopted America appointed army arrival assembly attention Bartlett became body Boston Britain British government character citizens Colonel colonies committee Connecticut constitution continental congress continued convention council court death declaration of independence delegates distinguished duties early effect elected eminently England entered father favour fortune Franklin friends gentleman Gerry governor gress honour Hopkinson house of burgesses Huntington important Jefferson judge justice latter legislature length liberty M'Kean Massachusetts measures ment mind minister Morris native New-Hampshire New-Jersey New-York occasion parliament patriotism peace Pennsylvania period Philadelphia PHILIP LIVINGSTON political possessed present president profession province received rendered represented resolution respect retired Rhode Island Richard Henry Lee ROGER SHERMAN royal Samuel Adams SAMUEL HUNTINGTON Sherman soon South Carolina spirit stamp act station tion took his seat town troops United Virginia vote Washington William WILLIAM WHIPPLE Witherspoon zeal
Pasajes populares
Página 399 - 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...
Página 432 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Página 69 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 66 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 110 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Página 399 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Página 65 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
Página 368 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by king James the first, the colonists aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities, of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Página 41 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 129 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...