Eminent Americans: Comprising Brief Biographies of Three Hundred and Thirty Distinguished PersonsMason brothers, 1857 - 416 Seiten |
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Eminent Americans: Comprising Brief Biographies of Three Hundred and Thirty ... Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
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Aaron Burr active American appointed army Autumn battle beautiful became born Boston Britain British called Captain capture Charleston chief chosen Church close Colonel colony command commenced commission Connecticut Continental army Continental Congress Cornplanter court daughter death Declaration died duties early elected eminent engaged England entered father French friends gave genius governor graduated Harvard College held Henry honor hundred Independence Indians James Jefferson Jersey John Judge labors land legislature Lott Cary major-general March married Massachusetts military militia minister mother native noble North patriot Pennsylvania Philadelphia political practice President prisoner profession published received remained republican resigned retired returned home Revolution Rhode Island seat Senate sent sketch Society soon afterward South Carolina Spring Stamp Act tion took treaty troops United United States Senate vessel Virginia Washington William wrote Yale College York young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 411 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 162 - Otis was a flame of .fire ; with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American Independence was then and there born.
Seite 154 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 404 - For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God : but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
Seite 351 - And say to mothers, what a holy charge Is theirs; with what a kingly power their love Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind. Warn them to wake at early dawn, and sow Good seed before the world hath sown her tares; Nor in their toil decline ; that angel bands May put the sickle in, and reap for God, And gather to his garner.
Seite 130 - The part he acted against me in the late war, which is of public notoriety, will account for my leaving him no more of an estate he endeavoured to deprive me of.
Seite 28 - I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.
Seite 123 - 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.
Seite 28 - The last time I saw your father was in the beginning of 1724, when I visited him after my first trip to Pennsylvania. He received me in his library, and on my taking leave showed me a shorter way out of the house through a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam overhead. We were still talking as I withdrew, he accompanying me behind, and I turning partly towards him, when he said hastily, " Stoop, stoop ! " I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam.
Seite 166 - In 1876 he was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of the state, and the same year, one of the Republican Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States.