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... proposed , I was yet a student of law in Williams- burg . I attended the debate , however , at the door of the lobby of the House of Burgesses , and heard the splendid dis- play of Mr. Henry's talents as a popular orator . They were ...
... proposed , I was yet a student of law in Williams- burg . I attended the debate , however , at the door of the lobby of the House of Burgesses , and heard the splendid dis- play of Mr. Henry's talents as a popular orator . They were ...
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... propose a meeting of deputies from every colony , at some central place , who should be charged with the direction of the ... proposed to me to move them , but I urged that it should be done by Mr. Carr , my friend and brother - in - law ...
... propose a meeting of deputies from every colony , at some central place , who should be charged with the direction of the ... proposed to me to move them , but I urged that it should be done by Mr. Carr , my friend and brother - in - law ...
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... proposed ; and it passed without opposition . The Go- vernor dissolved us , as usual . We retired to the Apollo , as before , agreed to an association , and instructed the committee of correspondence to propose to the corresponding ...
... proposed ; and it passed without opposition . The Go- vernor dissolved us , as usual . We retired to the Apollo , as before , agreed to an association , and instructed the committee of correspondence to propose to the corresponding ...
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... proposed to him to draw the paper . He excused himself , and proposed that I should draw On my pressing him with urgency , We are as yet but new acquaintances , Sir , ' said he , why are you so earnest for my doing it ? Because , ' said ...
... proposed to him to draw the paper . He excused himself , and proposed that I should draw On my pressing him with urgency , We are as yet but new acquaintances , Sir , ' said he , why are you so earnest for my doing it ? Because , ' said ...
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... proposed for foreign alliance . The committee for drawing the Declara- tion of Independence , desired me to do it . It was accordingly done , and being approved by them , I reported it to the House on Friday , the 28th of June , when it ...
... proposed for foreign alliance . The committee for drawing the Declara- tion of Independence , desired me to do it . It was accordingly done , and being approved by them , I reported it to the House on Friday , the 28th of June , when it ...
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Página 23 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 119 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 20 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 22 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Página 21 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Página 292 - I consider the class of artificers as the panders of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned.
Página 18 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 21 - At this very time, too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Página 432 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Página 22 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...