The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, 第 2 卷James Herring, James Barton Longacre Rice, Rutter & Company, 1835 |
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... British shore as a destitute and forlorn , nay , a deluded mechanic . Great Britain had already announced the project of taxing her colonies , and Dr. FRANKLIN was the bearer of a remonstrance from the province of Pennsylvania against ...
... British shore as a destitute and forlorn , nay , a deluded mechanic . Great Britain had already announced the project of taxing her colonies , and Dr. FRANKLIN was the bearer of a remonstrance from the province of Pennsylvania against ...
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... British ministry knew their man too well to leave any means in their power untried to convert the republican notions which had taken root in his bosom . Attempts were actually made , as the schism between the two countries widened , to ...
... British ministry knew their man too well to leave any means in their power untried to convert the republican notions which had taken root in his bosom . Attempts were actually made , as the schism between the two countries widened , to ...
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... British ministry began to talk of a reconciliation . Efforts , plain and insidious , were made to sound FRANKLIN as to the terms that might probably , be obtained ; his answer uniformly was , " nothing but independence . " He had next ...
... British ministry began to talk of a reconciliation . Efforts , plain and insidious , were made to sound FRANKLIN as to the terms that might probably , be obtained ; his answer uniformly was , " nothing but independence . " He had next ...
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... British troops into Boston , and the tumults and massacres occasioned by that measure ; by all the proceedings , indeed , of the government subsequent to the repeal of the stamp act , he knew well that passions were inflamed too fierce ...
... British troops into Boston , and the tumults and massacres occasioned by that measure ; by all the proceedings , indeed , of the government subsequent to the repeal of the stamp act , he knew well that passions were inflamed too fierce ...
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... British Ame- rica . " This he designed as an exposition , to be laid before the British sovereign , of the wrongs inflicted on America , and the sort of redress she would demand . " Open your breast , sire , " he says , addressing the ...
... British Ame- rica . " This he designed as an exposition , to be laid before the British sovereign , of the wrongs inflicted on America , and the sort of redress she would demand . " Open your breast , sire , " he says , addressing the ...
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第 8 頁 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
第 6 頁 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
第 6 頁 - ... short of despotism, since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers ; that the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy...
第 5 頁 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
第 8 頁 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
第 6 頁 - We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver!
第 13 頁 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
第 9 頁 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and...
第 1 頁 - And that an exact inventory be taken of all such cannon and stores in order that they may be safely returned when the restoration of the former harmony between great Britain and these colonies so ardently wished for by the latter shall render it prudent and consistent with the overruling law of self preservation.
第 5 頁 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...