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Patrick Henry
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  • Rod, are you going to let this Teller U. character insult an old Patrick Henry man?†   (source)
  • An exultant John Adams wrote to Patrick Henry that the "natural course and order of things" was coming to pass at last.†   (source)
  • Further, he offered a list of those he had in mind for the assignment that included Patrick Henry and William Vans Murray.†   (source)
  • Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.†   (source)
  • A faint convulsion ran over Robert Stadler's face at the words: "-former head of the Department of Physics of the Patrick Henry University.†   (source)
  • For the last three years, he had been head of the Department of Philosophy at the Patrick Henry University.†   (source)
  • Afterward, when Patrick Henry declined for reasons of health, Adams chose another southerner, the Federalist governor of North Carolina, William Davie.†   (source)
  • I am an alumnus of the great school that employs Dr. Pritchett at present, the Patrick Henry University.†   (source)
  • He had not attended the First Congress, when Washington and Patrick Henry had been part of the delegation, and the Virginians with their liveried servants and splendid horses had ridden into the city like princelings.†   (source)
  • But the detachment Jefferson enjoyed from the war had ended abruptly in the spring of 1779 when the Virginia Assembly chose him to succeed Patrick Henry as the wartime governor, a role he disliked and that was to prove the low point of his public career, as probably he foresaw.†   (source)
  • Then he told her that he had taken two courses of education during the last four years: one at the Patrick Henry University, the other in a copper foundry on the outskirts of Cleveland.†   (source)
  • Dr. Robert Stadler once told me that when you were at the Patrick Henry University, you had three students who were your favorites and his, three brilliant minds from whom you expected a great future.†   (source)
  • At thirty-two, he became head of the Department of Physics of the Patrick Henry University, in the days when the great University still deserved its glory.†   (source)
  • The Patrick Henry University.†   (source)
  • I looked at them, as they sat in my back yard, and beyond my house there were the tall, dark buildings of what was still a monument to unenslaved thought-the Patrick Henry Universityand farther in the distance there were the lights of Cleveland, the orange glow of steel mills behind batteries of smokestacks, the twinkling red dots of radio towers, the long white rays of airports on the black edge of the sky-and I thought that in the name of any greatness that had ever existed and moved…†   (source)
  • …to the floor, the other bent, his hands clasping his knee, his head of sun-streaked hair raised against a spread of gray sky-and suddenly Dr. Stadler saw the figure of a young boy sitting on the porch-railing of his home, near the campus of the Patrick Henry University, with the sun on the chestnut hair of a head lifted against a spread of summer blue, and he heard the passionate intensity of his own voice saying twenty-two years ago: "The only sacred value in the world, John, is the…†   (source)
  • Mine's Patrick Henry High School.†   (source)
  • Someone moved aside and he managed to read the notice: PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL Department of Social Studies SPECIAL NOTICE to all students Course 410 (elective senior seminar) Advanced Survival, instr.†   (source)
  • "As that great patriot Patrick Henry said " Johnny get your gun get your gun get your gun "As that great patriot George Washington said " "Goodbye mother goodbye Catherine goodbye Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • Mr. Schiller, they saw, was religiously impressed, like Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Paul Revere, with the beauties of Liberty.†   (source)
  • In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.†   (source)
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