The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 |
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... considerable fortune by his first marriage , but he probably got something besides his name from his father . 2 In February , 1779 , at the age of nineteen , he was matriculated at Oxford from University College , where he seems to have ...
... considerable fortune by his first marriage , but he probably got something besides his name from his father . 2 In February , 1779 , at the age of nineteen , he was matriculated at Oxford from University College , where he seems to have ...
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... considerable business and it was probably due to no negligence of his that it fell with a crash in 1793 , in a time of great depression . " The story of his losses was current during the first decade of his residence in America , but in ...
... considerable business and it was probably due to no negligence of his that it fell with a crash in 1793 , in a time of great depression . " The story of his losses was current during the first decade of his residence in America , but in ...
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... Dec. 27 , 1787 , ( Manchester ) Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade , Manchester Mercury , Jan. 1 , 1788 . in February , 1788 , was doubtless in considerable part MANCHESTER BEGINNINGS 21.
... Dec. 27 , 1787 , ( Manchester ) Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade , Manchester Mercury , Jan. 1 , 1788 . in February , 1788 , was doubtless in considerable part MANCHESTER BEGINNINGS 21.
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Dumas Malone. in February , 1788 , was doubtless in considerable part due to his writings and personal efforts . 70 This petition asked for investigation and condemned the principle and practice of the slave trade . " Thomas Walker ...
Dumas Malone. in February , 1788 , was doubtless in considerable part due to his writings and personal efforts . 70 This petition asked for investigation and condemned the principle and practice of the slave trade . " Thomas Walker ...
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... considerable assist- ance from Thomas Cooper , until its dissolution a year later . Two other reform societies were established in Manchester in May and June , 1792 , the Patriotic Society 103 Resolutions of May 3 , 1791 , Manchester ...
... considerable assist- ance from Thomas Cooper , until its dissolution a year later . Two other reform societies were established in Manchester in May and June , 1792 , the Patriotic Society 103 Resolutions of May 3 , 1791 , Manchester ...
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Page 52 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Page 21 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 405 - A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel: With Copious Notes and References to Authorities in Great Britain and the United States: As Applicable to Individuals and to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies and Principles.
Page 287 - inferior variety of the human species; and not capable of the same improvement as the whites." Dr. SC Cartwright of the University of Louisiana insisted that the capacities of the Negro adult for learning were equal to those of a white infant; and the Negro could properly perform certain physiological functions only when under the control of white men. Because of the Negro's inferiority...
Page 307 - Is it worth our while to continue this union of states, where the north demand to be our masters, and we are required to be their tributaries...
Page 410 - An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper of Northumberland on a Charge of Libel Against the President of the United States; Taken in Short Hand, with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia, John Bioren, printer, 1800).
Page 352 - I am not yet conquered, and expect yet to bivouac on the field of Battle. I have no objection to a moral governor of the universe, but how came he in that character to create the Priesthood ? Moral ! You might as well apply squareness to virtue. I wish I knew how to account for moral and physical evil, and then I should be able to account for malaria, dyspepsia, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes and faquirs of all classes and orders, asiatic and european, papist and protestant.
Page 124 - But in the present state of affairs, the press is open to those who will praise, while the threats of the law hang over those who blame the conduct of the men in power.
Page 402 - AN APPEAL to the Government and Congress of the United States, against the Depredations committed by American Privateers, on the Commerce of Nations at peace with us. By an American Citizen.
Page 198 - ... Judge Cooper, of Pennsylvania, a political refugee with Dr. Priestley from the fires and mobs of Birmingham. He is one of the ablest men in America, and that in several branches of science. The law opinion which he mentions I have received, and a more luminous one has not been seen. The best pieces on political economy which have been written in this country were by Cooper.