A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: And of Washington and Patrick Henry. With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States and Other Documents, 第 2 巻J. Dobson, and Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1839 - 354 ページ |
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... committees of correspondence throughout the colonies , was devised by him in the early part of 1773 , and proved eminently useful in producing unity of sentiment and concert of action among the patriots . About that time , he wrote and ...
... committees of correspondence throughout the colonies , was devised by him in the early part of 1773 , and proved eminently useful in producing unity of sentiment and concert of action among the patriots . About that time , he wrote and ...
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... committee , which re- ported an answer , drawn by the author of the declaration of inde- pendence , similar , in its main features , to that much admired docu- ment , which was immediately adopted . The ball of resistance was put in ...
... committee , which re- ported an answer , drawn by the author of the declaration of inde- pendence , similar , in its main features , to that much admired docu- ment , which was immediately adopted . The ball of resistance was put in ...
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... committee appointed to form a plan of territorial government for the extensive regions of the then " far west . " True to his favourite prin- ciple of finally emancipating the sable African , he introduced a clause prohibiting slavery ...
... committee appointed to form a plan of territorial government for the extensive regions of the then " far west . " True to his favourite prin- ciple of finally emancipating the sable African , he introduced a clause prohibiting slavery ...
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... committees of that body , and was uniformly chairman . He was also elected speaker , but the governor , who was jealous of his liberal principles , put a veto upon his appointment . His intelligence had led him to investigate the laws ...
... committees of that body , and was uniformly chairman . He was also elected speaker , but the governor , who was jealous of his liberal principles , put a veto upon his appointment . His intelligence had led him to investigate the laws ...
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... committee was appointed , at the head of which were Hancock and Samuel Adams , instructed to request the governor to remove the troops from the town . He at first refused , but finding , under exist- ing circumstances , that discretion ...
... committee was appointed , at the head of which were Hancock and Samuel Adams , instructed to request the governor to remove the troops from the town . He at first refused , but finding , under exist- ing circumstances , that discretion ...
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