An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America from Its First Settlement, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United StatesWilliam Hyde & Company, 1832 - 800 páginas |
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... American history , or scattered amidst a multitude of tracts of various kinds , and could fashion these materials into a regular form , so as to place before the eye our great and good men , if not in their full di- mensions , yet in ...
... American history , or scattered amidst a multitude of tracts of various kinds , and could fashion these materials into a regular form , so as to place before the eye our great and good men , if not in their full di- mensions , yet in ...
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... American writers , it is believed , have generally if not always applied them to the latter . When the figures for two years are written , as in dates before the adoption of the new style in 1752 is found frequently to be the case not ...
... American writers , it is believed , have generally if not always applied them to the latter . When the figures for two years are written , as in dates before the adoption of the new style in 1752 is found frequently to be the case not ...
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... America . The first edition was the first general collection of American biography ever publjshed ; and it is still the largest work of the kind , which has appeared . In the Prospectus of this second edition it was proposed to print ...
... America . The first edition was the first general collection of American biography ever publjshed ; and it is still the largest work of the kind , which has appeared . In the Prospectus of this second edition it was proposed to print ...
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... American Biography will be found to comprise the first SETTLERS and FATHERS of our country ; early NAVIGATORS and adventurous TRAVELLERS ; the STATESMEN , PATRIOTS , and HEROes , who have contended for American liberty , or assisted in ...
... American Biography will be found to comprise the first SETTLERS and FATHERS of our country ; early NAVIGATORS and adventurous TRAVELLERS ; the STATESMEN , PATRIOTS , and HEROes , who have contended for American liberty , or assisted in ...
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... American camp , favored with a letter from Burgoyne to Gates . - After his return to England major Ackland , in a dispute with lieut . Lloyd , defended the Americans against the charge of coward- ice and gave him the lie direct . A duel ...
... American camp , favored with a letter from Burgoyne to Gates . - After his return to England major Ackland , in a dispute with lieut . Lloyd , defended the Americans against the charge of coward- ice and gave him the lie direct . A duel ...
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Página 394 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 10 - The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink — live or die — survive or perish, with my country, is my unalterable determination.
Página 100 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 144 - When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Página 395 - England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
Página 358 - They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that Great Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this Great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight...
Página 42 - Nothing but to request you will witness to the world that I die like a brave man.
Página 474 - When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all nations ; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats ; and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Página 13 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Página 488 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.