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" 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 - Page 266
by Roger Lamb - 1811 - 296 pages
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...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...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 11

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 pages
...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...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777 ...

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1850 - 664 pages
...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...
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The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our ...

Almanacs, American - 1852 - 414 pages
...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....
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Illustrated Biography; Or, Memoirs of the Great and the Good of All Nations ...

Charles C. Savage - Biography - 1856 - 624 pages
...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...
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Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton: Or, Men and Events, at Home and Abroad ...

James Alexander Hamilton - History - 1869 - 672 pages
...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...
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Lessons from the Life of Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...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...
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A Few of Hamilton's Letters: Including His Description of the Great West ...

Alexander Hamilton - Hurricanes - 1903 - 324 pages
...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...
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A FEW OF HAMILTON'S LETTERS

GERTRUDE ATHERTON - 1903 - 324 pages
...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...
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The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton: Based Chiefly Upon Original Family ...

Allan McLane Hamilton - Statesmen - 1910 - 564 pages
...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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