Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph County, Michigan |
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Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph County, Michigan Chapman Publishing Company No preview available - 2015 |
Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph County, Michigan Chapman Publishing Company No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 27 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. Jefferson, as chairman, was appointed to draw up the paper.
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Page 23 - school of affliction," from which he endeavored to gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the study of law. For this purpose he placed himself under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He had thought seriously of the clerical profession but seems to have been turned from this by what he termed " the frightful engines of ecclesiastical counjils, of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature,'' of the operations of which he had been a witness in his native town.