Book/Printed Material 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.
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Image 1 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 5 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... A BIOGRAPHY OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND OF WASHINGTON AND PATRICK HENRY. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE Constitution ot the ©toftcfc States AND OTHER DOCUMENTS. BY L. CARROLL...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 6 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... Entered according to the Act of Congress, A. D. 1839, by Timothy Caldwell, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsyl- vania. P DORSEY, PRINTER,...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... CONTENTS Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Edward Rutledge, Thomas M Kean, Philip Livingston, George Wythe, Abraham Clark, Francis Lewis, Richard Stockton, Samuel Adams, Dr. Benjamin Rush,...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 8 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... IV CONTENTS. Robert Treat Paine, George Taylor, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Thomas Stone, Lewis Morris, John Hart, Button Gwinnett, William Ellery, Lyman Hall, John Penn, Elbridge Gerry, William Paca, George Ross, Benjamin Harrison,...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... ADVERTISEMENT. The proprietor of this book, now verging on four score years, pre- sents it to the public with an anxious hope that it will be instrumental in doing much good. To...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... PREFACE. The present is emphatically an era of books. The march of mind is onward and upward, bold and expanding. The soaring intellect of man, rising on the wings of investigation and...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... Vlll PREFACE. been used, a sincere desire to do good has prompted their applica- tion. To remove the unsound parts of the body politic should be a desideratum with every freeman. By...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... PREFACE. j Y Finally, to carry the reader back to first principles, and point plainly and clearly to the land marks of 76, as fixed by the signers of the declaration of...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... BttlutntUm of xmt#mnmtt BY THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, July 4, MDCCLXXVI. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 10 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. rity. Such has been tfie patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 17 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... DECLARATION OF IXDEPEN^^CE. i For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pr^^^d offences. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government,...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 12 kvhi^Hcej ATION OF INDEPENDENCE. acts and things whi^Wcependent states may of right do. And, for the sup- port of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provi-...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... BIOGRAPHY THOMAS JEFFERSON. When the Great Ruler of the universe resolved to set his people free from Egyptian bondage, he raised up able and mighty men, to eft ect his glorious purposes....- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 1 4 ^MTHOMAS JEFFERSON. study of law und^^roncellor Wythe, whose liberal views were well calculated to strengthen and mature those already preponderating in the mind of Jefferson. With regard to the oppressions...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... THOMAS JEFFERSON. 15 So exasperated was Lord Dunmore on perusing this article, that he threatened to arrest its author for high treason. Written and pub- lished during the session of the legislature...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 16 .THOMAS JEFFERSON. become the chart of patriots throughout the civilized world. It is the ne plus ultra* of a gigantic mind, elevated to a lofty eminence by the finest touches of...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... THOMAS JEFFERSON. 17 governor were found equal to every emergency. He rallied the bone and sinew of old Virginia, who with hearts of oak and nerves of steel, checked the enemy in...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 18 THOMAS JEFFERSON. monious system, the new order of things. Well versed in the usages of diplomacy, international law, and the policy of European courts, he was prepared to plant the permanent...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... THOMAS JEFFERSON. 9 His conversation is of the most agreeable kind, and he possesses a stock of information, not inferior to any other man. In Europe, he would hold a distinguished rank...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 20 THOMAS JEFFERSON. choice; and, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Mr. Jefferson was duly elected President, and Mr. Burr Vice President; the former by a majority of eight votes. The following extract from...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... THOMAS JEFFERSON. 21 factory was his course to his fellow citizens, that he was re-elected to a second term, by a majority of one hundred and forty-eight. His inaugural address, on that...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON. lently assailed by the opponents of the administration. It, however, had a salutary effect upon the British government, and caused a relin- quishment of the most odious features of...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... THOMAS JEFFERSON. 23 old age, and his strongest efforts were exerted in its accomplishment. These were crowned with success, and he had the happiness to live and see the University completed and...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 24 THOMAS JEFFERSON. culiar anxiety for the future prosperity of the university which he had founded, regarding it as the youngest child of his old age. Assured that it would receive the...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 25 JOHN HANCOCK. Biography is a subject of such thrilling interest, that the memory of most men, in every age and nation, who have rendered themselves eminent, either in the cause of...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 26 JOHN HANCOCK. a long trial, he came out like gold seven times tried; he was weighed in the scale of justice, and not found wanting. As a proof of the high...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... JOHN HANCOCK. 27 quails and trembles; at the sight of which, humanity bleeds at every pore. It is a commentary, strong and eloquent, upon the impropriety of quartering soldiers amongst citizens, of...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... gg JOHN HANCOCK. through the long tracts of .future time; let every parent tell the story to his listening children, till the tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... JOHN HANCOCK. 29 ing the arduous duties assigned him, with fidelity and great ability, and to the satisfaction of his colleagues and his country. His was the only name affixed to the...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 30 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Governor Hancock now had the satisfaction of seeing prosperity spread its benign influence over the whole infant republic, and her institutions, laws, trade, manufactures, commerce, and agriculture, based on...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 3 1 He also accustomed himself to meet and bear disappointments with philosophic fortitude. He continued to improve his mind by reading, for which he had an insatiable thirst. Nothing...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 32 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. dollar left; was a stranger, and only seventeen years of age; and, without business, must soon be dependent on the cold charities of the world for his bed and...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 33 menccd business on their own account. His industry and exertions were now put in full requisition: he manned his own wheelbarrow in collecting materials for business, and put nature...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 40 of A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington ... 34 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. a messenger of truth. Would to God the same could be said of all the public prints of the present day. He continued to pursue his studies, until he...- Contributor: Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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