The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Том 2H. Perkins, 1835 |
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... experiments with complete success , and adding others , of which some accounts had reached him from England , the science for a time wholly occu- pied his ambition . He acquired by practice a dexterity 7 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... experiments with complete success , and adding others , of which some accounts had reached him from England , the science for a time wholly occu- pied his ambition . He acquired by practice a dexterity 7 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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James Herring, James Barton Longacre. pied his ambition . He acquired by practice a dexterity in performing those experiments , and soon diffused his fame through the world , and drew upon his native country the regard and attention of ...
James Herring, James Barton Longacre. pied his ambition . He acquired by practice a dexterity in performing those experiments , and soon diffused his fame through the world , and drew upon his native country the regard and attention of ...
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... practice which may be warmly recommended -many of our most eminent men trace to such associations the development of their minds . - Of FRANKLIN's youthful levity on the subject of religion , it is necessary to remark , that when he had ...
... practice which may be warmly recommended -many of our most eminent men trace to such associations the development of their minds . - Of FRANKLIN's youthful levity on the subject of religion , it is necessary to remark , that when he had ...
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... practice virtue , and dissemi- nate it among mankind , he considered his duty wherever he went , and he allowed no common distraction of life to turn him from his laudable purpose . Like Lycurgus , he wished that the praise of virtue ...
... practice virtue , and dissemi- nate it among mankind , he considered his duty wherever he went , and he allowed no common distraction of life to turn him from his laudable purpose . Like Lycurgus , he wished that the praise of virtue ...
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... practice in genteel families to have a tankard of punch made in the morning , and placed in a cooler when the season required it . Visiters were invited to partake of it . At this visit HANCOCK took from the cooler , standing on the ...
... practice in genteel families to have a tankard of punch made in the morning , and placed in a cooler when the season required it . Visiters were invited to partake of it . At this visit HANCOCK took from the cooler , standing on the ...
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Страница 8 - 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...
Страница 6 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Страница 8 - ... 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.
Страница 6 - 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!
Страница 13 - 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.
Страница 9 - 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...
Страница 3 - 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.
Страница 12 - ... 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...
Страница 10 - 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...