See also:PATRICK See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- PATRICK HENRY (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1736–1799)
, See also:American statesman and orator, was See also:born at Studley, See also:Hanover See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 29th ' of May 1736
.
He was the son of See also:John See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, . a well-educated Scotsman, among whose relatives was the historian See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Robertson, and who served in Virginia as county surveyor, See also:colonel and See also:judge of a county See also:court
.
His See also:mother was one of a See also:family named Winston, of Welsh descent, noted for conversational and musical See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent
.
At the See also:age of ten See also:Patrick was making slow progress in the study of See also:reading, See also:writing and See also:arithmetic at a small See also:country school, when his See also:father became his See also:tutor and taught him Latin, See also:Greek and See also:mathematics for five years, but with limited success
.
His school days being then terminated, he was employed as a See also:store-clerk for one See also:year
.
Within the seven years next following he failed twice as a store-keeper' and once as a See also:farmer; but in the meantime acquired a See also:taste for reading, of See also:history especially, and read and re-read the history of See also:Greece and See also:Rome, of See also:England, and of her American colonies
.
Then, poor but not discouraged, he resolved to be a lawyer, and after reading See also:Coke upon See also:Littleton and the Virginia See also:laws for a few See also:weeks only, he strongly impressed one of his
examiners, and was admitted to the See also:bar at the age of twenty-four, on See also:condition that he spend more See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in study before beginning to practise
.
He rapidly acquired a considerable practice, his See also:fee books See also:shewing that for the first three years he charged fees in 1185 cases
.
Then in 1763 was delivered his speech in " The See also:Parson's Cause "—a suit brought by a See also:clergy-See also:man, Rev
.
See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Maury, in the Hanover County Court, to secure restitution for See also:money considered by him to be due on See also:account of his See also:salary (16,000 pounds of See also:tobacco by See also:law) having been paid in money calculated at a See also:rate less than the current See also:market See also:price of tobacco
.
This speech, which, according to reports, was extremely See also:radical and denied the right of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to disallow acts of the colonial legislature, made Henry the idol of the See also:common See also:people of Virginia and procured for him an enormous practice
.
In 1765 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, where he became in the same year the author of the " Virginia Resolutions," which were no less than a See also:declaration of resistance to the See also:Stamp See also:Act and an assertion of the right of the colonies to legislate for themselves independently of the See also:control of the See also:British See also:parliament, and gave a most powerful impetus to the See also:movement resulting in the See also:War of See also:Independence
.
In a speech urging their See also:adoption appear the often-quoted words: " Tarquin and See also:Caesar had each his See also:Brutus, See also:Charles the First his See also:Cromwell, and See also:George the Third [here he was interrupted by cries of " See also:Treason "1 and George the Third may profit by their example
!
If this be treason, make the most of it." Until 1775 he continued to sit in the See also:House of Burgesses, as a See also:leader during all that eventful See also:period
.
He was prominent as a radical in all See also:measures in opposition to the British See also:government, and was a member of the first Virginia See also:committee of See also:correspondence
.
In 1774 and 1775 he was a delegate to the See also:Continental See also:Congress and served on three of its most important committees: that on colonial See also:trade and manufactures, that for See also:drawing up an address to the king, and that for stating the rights of the colonies
.
In 1775, in the second revolutionary See also:convention of Virginia, Henry, regarding war as inevitable, presented resolutions for arming the Virginia See also:militia
.
The more conservative members strongly opposed them as premature, whereupon Henry supported them in a speech See also:familiar to the American school-boy for several generations following, closing with the words, " Is See also:life so dear or See also:peace so sweet as to be See also:purchased at the price of chains and See also:slavery
?
Forbid it, Almighty See also:God
!
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me See also:liberty or give me See also:death
!
" The resolutions were passed and their author was made chairman of the committee for which they provided
.
The See also:chief command of the newly organized See also:army was also given to him, but previously, at the See also:head of a See also:body of militia, he had demanded See also:satisfaction for See also:powder removed from the public store by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:Lord See also:Dunmore, the royal See also:governor, with the result that 330 was paid in See also:compensation
.
But his military See also:appointment required obedience to the Committee of Public Safety, and this body, largely dominated by See also:Edmund See also:Pendleton, so restrained him from active service that he resigned on the 28th of See also:February 1776
.
In the Virginia convention of 1776 he favoured the postponement of a declaration of independence, until a See also:firm See also:union of the colonies and the friendship of See also:France and See also:Spain had been secured
.
In the same convention he served on the committee which drafted the first constitution for Virginia, and was elected governor of the See also:State—to which See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he was re-elected in 1777 and 1778, thus serving as See also:long as the new constitution allowed any man to serve continuously
.
As governor he gave See also:Washington able support and sent out the expedition under George See also:Rogers See also:Clark (q.v.) into the See also:Illinois country
.
In 1778 he was chosen a delegate to Congress, but declined to serve
.
From
1780 to 1784 and from 1787 to 1790 he was again a member of his State legislature; and from 1784 to 1786 was again governor
.
Until 1786 he was a leading See also:advocate of a stronger central government but when chosen a delegate to the See also:Philadelphia
constitutional convention of 1787, he had become See also:cold in the
cause and declined to serve
.
Moreover, in the state convention
called to decide whether Virginia should ratify the Federal
Constitution he led the opposition, contending that the proposedConstitution, because of its centralizing See also:character, was dangerous to the liberties of the country
.
This See also:change of attitude is thought to have been due chiefly to his suspicion of the See also:North aroused by John See also:Jay's proposal to surrender to Spain for twenty-five or See also:thirty years the See also:navigation of the See also:Mississippi
.
From 1794 until his death he declined in See also:succession the following offices: See also:United States senator (1794), secretary of state in Washington's See also:cabinet (1795), chief See also:justice of the United States Supreme Court (1795), governor of Virginia (1796), to which office he had been elected by the See also:Assembly, and See also:envoy to France (1799)
.
In 1799, however, he consented to serve again in his State legislature, where he wished to combat the Virginia Resolutions; he never took his seat, since he died, on his Red See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill See also:estate in See also:Charlotte county, Virginia, on the 6th of See also:June of that year
.
Henry was twice married, first to Sarah See also:Skelton, and second to Dorothea See also:Spotswood Dandridge, a See also:grand-daughter of Governor See also:Alexander Spotswood
.
See See also:Moses See also:Colt See also:Tyler, Patrick Henry (See also:Boston, 1887; new ed., 1899), and William Wirt Henry (Patrick Henry's See also:grandson), Patrick Henry: Life,, Correspondence and Speeches (New See also:York, 189o–1891) ; these supersede the very unsatisfactory See also:biography by William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Philadelphia, 1817)
.
See also George See also:Morgan, The True Patrick Henry (Philadelphia, 1907)
.
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