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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, See also:PATRICK (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 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 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). (N. D.
End of Article: HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
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