Patrick Henry and His WorldDoubleday, 1969 - 498 pages On May 29, 1765, a young backwoods lawyer named Patrick Henry rose in the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, Virginia, and offered exciting resolutions that were the prelude to the American Declaration of Independence. This is an account of that young lawyer, the politics of his day, and his part in our early history. |
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... noted , " to provide even a scanty support for his family . " His success as a planter was marginal . Mother Nature , it appears , had not cut out her " child of Nature " to be a tiller of the soil . After less than three years at Piney ...
... noted , " to provide even a scanty support for his family . " His success as a planter was marginal . Mother Nature , it appears , had not cut out her " child of Nature " to be a tiller of the soil . After less than three years at Piney ...
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... noted before : " Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus ; Charles the First , his Cromwell ; and George the Third . . . " At this , the speaker of the House , a grand Grandee , the most powerful man in the colony , shouted , " Treason ...
... noted before : " Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus ; Charles the First , his Cromwell ; and George the Third . . . " At this , the speaker of the House , a grand Grandee , the most powerful man in the colony , shouted , " Treason ...
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... noted , " a large , well - looking man , " impressive in appearance and engaging in manner ; Lee , " tall , spare , . . . a masterful man ; " Bland , " a learned , bookish man . " Though not much impressed with Benjamin Harrison ...
... noted , " a large , well - looking man , " impressive in appearance and engaging in manner ; Lee , " tall , spare , . . . a masterful man ; " Bland , " a learned , bookish man . " Though not much impressed with Benjamin Harrison ...
Contents
A Day to Remember | 1 |
A Hard School | 11 |
At Sheltons Tavern | 29 |
Copyright | |
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