 After the peace, I settled in the city of New York, in the practice of the law, and was in a very lucrative course of practice, when the derangement of our public affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reluctantly into...  Memoir of His Own Life - Seite 266von Roger Lamb - 1811 - 296 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 Seiten
...affairs by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reluctantly into public life. I became a member of the convention which framed the...constitution of the United States, and having taken part in this measure, I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 Seiten
...detail. The circumstances under which this ordinance came into existence, were most extraordinary. The Convention which framed the present Constitution of the United States, and the Congress under the old confederation, were sitting in Philadelphia at the same time, in 1787. Hear... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - 664 Seiten
...affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reluctantly into public life. I became a member of the Convention which framed the...Constitution of the United States ; and having taken part in this measure, I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine... | |
 | 1852 - 414 Seiten
...1776, he was sent to the Continental Congress, and continued at times a member till 1785. He wag a member of the Convention which framed the present Constitution of the United States. He was a member of Congress four years. In 1797, he was appointed a minister to the French Republic.... | |
 | Charles C. Savage - 1856 - 624 Seiten
...and he was appointed president of Pennsylvania, which office he held three years. In 1787, he was in the convention which framed the present constitution of the United States, and this was the last public duty he performed. The gout and stone, with which he had been afflicted many... | |
 | James Alexander Hamilton - 1869 - 672 Seiten
...affairs by the feebleness of the general confederation drew me again, reluctantly, into public life. I became a member of the Convention which framed the...Constitution of the United States, and having taken part in this measure I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 Seiten
...position by annual election for three years. When eighty-two years of age he was chosen a delegate to the Convention which framed the present Constitution of the United States, and which met in Philadelphia in May, 1787. He was one of its signers, and it is not too much to say that... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1903 - 324 Seiten
...affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reluctantly into public life. I became a member of the Convention which framed the...Constitution of the United States ; and having taken part in this measure, I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine... | |
 | GERTRUDE ATHERTON - 1903 - 324 Seiten
...affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reluctantly into public life. I became a member of the Convention which framed the...Constitution of the United States; and having taken part in this measure, I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1910 - 564 Seiten
...affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reIluctantly into public life. I became a member of the Convention which framed the...Constitution of the United States; and having taken part in this measure, I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine... | |
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