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  • ...|Wythe's decisions]], sources in biographies of [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Henry Clay]], and [[Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wythe|Clarkin's]] and [[Geor ...resent Majesty King George the Second]]. [London] in the Savoy, printed by Henry Lintot, for John Worrall, 1754. [Millicent Sowerby, <u>Catalogue of the Lib
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  • ...that on the invitation of George Walker, he spent four nights at Walker's home on the "Strawberry banks," and found Mrs. Walker "more loving" than he had ...opposition did not proceed from any real difference of principle with Mr. Henry, but further action was deemed by him premature until answers to the memori
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  • [[File:VirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Letter from Henry Clay to Benjamin Blake Minor, printed in the ''Virginia Historical Register ...[[Media:GeorgeWytheVirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.pdf|Letter from Hon. Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, Esq.]]," ''Virginia Historical Register, and Literary C
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  • ===Henry Home Kames, ''[[Principles of Equity]]''=== <span style="color: #006600;">"What Home has said, on this question, in his principles of equity, part I. sect II. a
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  • ...aft copies of the [[Declaration of Independence]] to George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Philip Mazzei, John Page, Sr., and Edmund Pendleton. ...Lee, 29 June 1776. In James Curtis Ballagh, ed., ''The Letters of Richard Henry Lee,'' vol. 1, ''1762-1778'' (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 203.</ref>
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  • ....<ref>Jean Edward Smith, ''John Marshall: Definer of a Nation'' (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996), 23.</ref> ...versity Press, 2001), 7.</ref> After one year at the school, John returned home.<ref>Ibid.</ref> There, his father hired him a private tutor, a young Angli
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  • ...ation of Independence]], reportedly handed down from the family of Richard Henry Lee (but suspected of being the copy sent to [[George Wythe]]). The manuscr ...tion in Jefferson's hand except that supposed to have been sent to Richard Henry Lee. This draft was classed among the lost historic records.
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  • ...e pruned down by his more cautious compeers, he opposed the resolutions of Henry against the stamp ...Mr. Jefferson in his Summary View. Although he opposed the resolutions of Henry for putting the colonies into a posture of defence, which were adopted by t
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  • ...Henry Tazewell, Richard Parker, Spencer Roane, [[St. George Tucker]], and Henry St. George Tucker, Francis T. Brooke, and William H. Cabell.<ref>S.S.P. Pat ...reek. Whatever may have been the real cause, his early years were spent at home. His literary advantages were thus limited; but his mother's influence impl
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  • ...more conservative tendencies, Pendleton frequently disagreed with Patrick Henry, whom he regarded as a demagogue.<ref>Thomas P. Abernathy, Vol. VII, Part 2 Henry Clay, who worked for and studied under Wythe from ? to ?, described the dif
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  • ...d for first impressions which had the most salutary influence on my life." Henry Clay, who was for four years Wythe's amanuensis, whom Wythe taught and intr ...f Virginia, and helped design the seal of the state. It was he who brought home from Philadelphia the draft of the Constitution which Jefferson had made, a
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  • Williamsburg, 10 May, 1791.&mdash;"Tom Randolph [a student] is at home, and whether he will return is uncertain." . . . "Among the new students is ...as also left town, and then to go on to the mountains. The only persons at home at present are the two Miss Blairs and Miss Balfour, and to them I shall gi
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  • ...ch was George Wythe, the honor of his own, and the model of future times." Henry Clay's estimate, and that of almost every Virginian who knew Wythe, agreed ...bservation of the urbanity and suavity of Wythe's manners is also typical; Henry Clay thought that Wythe "made the most graceful bow that I have ever witnes
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  • ...the House, on these subjects, being no longer left to the old members, Mr. Henry, R. H. Lee, Fr. L. Lee, three or four other members, whom I do not recollec ...r the place, and the 5th of September for the time of meeting. We returned home, and in our several counties invited the clergy to meet assemblies of the p
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  • ...ear."<ref>Henry Clay to Benjamin B. Minor, May 3, 1851, in ''The Papers of Henry Clay,'' ed. Robert Seager II et al. (11 vols., 1959-1992), X, 888-89.</ref> George Wythe was born in 1726 or 1727 at his family's home, Chesterville, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia.<ref>Unless otherwise not
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  • ...Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills'' (London: In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer, esq.) and sold by S. Birt, 1743).</ref> as ...precedent he cited. In response, the plaintiff's attorney said he would go home and burn all his law books in an offering to Astrea, the Greek personificat
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  • |1stofficesucceeded=Henry Baldwin ...d his early education under the guidance of a tutor in the home of Richard Henry Lee, a prominent Virginian and eventual [[Declaration of Independence]] sig
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  • ...e Martin owed money to were English merchants Philip Nathaniel Devisme and Henry Smith, but the British bankruptcy court did not assign any of Martin's asse ...Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber|Henry Blackstone's Reports]].</ref> to support this idea.
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  • ...d Margaret with teaching George some Latin. <ref>Ibid.</ref> In contrast, Henry Clay--like Jefferson--believed Margaret's influence to be in Greek rather t ...f>Hemphill, ''George Wythe the Colonial Briton'', 32.</ref> Wythe's early home-based education was possibly supplemented by a short stint at the grammar s
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  • ...or misgivings, for Jefferson worried about slavery, the government of his home state, and American society in general.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was particularly ...calf; the spine features a red morocco label with gilt lettering. Signed "Henry O. Newcomb, 1834, No.9" on the front fly-leaf and "Job Goodale" on the titl
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