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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... wished to get into serious trouble about rental of fields , renewing a lease on a house , and such things . But lords of the manor were usually gracious enough to offer their " free " voters some recompense for bothering to go to the ...
... wished to get into serious trouble about rental of fields , renewing a lease on a house , and such things . But lords of the manor were usually gracious enough to offer their " free " voters some recompense for bothering to go to the ...
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... wished free and unhampered navigation all the way to the Gulf . Otherwise , settlement and development of the then American West would be discouraged . It would be much easier and cheaper to float its produce down the river and out into ...
... wished free and unhampered navigation all the way to the Gulf . Otherwise , settlement and development of the then American West would be discouraged . It would be much easier and cheaper to float its produce down the river and out into ...
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... wished , most anxiously wished , the adoption of the Constitution as the only means of saving the credit and honor of the country , and producing the stability of the union . The gentleman , on the contrary , had placed himself at the ...
... wished , most anxiously wished , the adoption of the Constitution as the only means of saving the credit and honor of the country , and producing the stability of the union . The gentleman , on the contrary , had placed himself at the ...
Contents
A Day to Remember | 1 |
A Hard School | 11 |
At Sheltons Tavern | 29 |
Copyright | |
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