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A Mechanical account of poisons, in several essays de Richard Mead

Dialogues concerning education de David Fordyce

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, duke of Sully, prime minister of Henry the great de Duc Maximilien de Bethune de Sully

A Code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits de Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

Remarks on the opinions of some of the most celebrated writers on crown law respecting the due distinction between manslaughter and murder de Granville Sharp

The office and authority of a justice of peace : and also the duty of sheriffs, coroners, church-wardens, surveiors of highways, constables, and officers of militia : together with precedents of warrants, judgments, executions, and other legal process, issuable by magistrates within their respective jurisdictions, in cases civil or criminal : and the method of judicial proceedings, before justices of peace, in matters within their cognisance out of sessions de George Webb

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EtiquetesLiterature (99), Great Britain (98), Law (94), History (62), Politics and Government (47), Medicine (45), Essays (39), Classics (39), Religion (35), Poetry (33) — mostra totes les etiquetes

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Quant a miRichard Henry Lee (20 January 1732 - 19 June 1794), planter and Virginia statesman, the originator of the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress and a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. The son of Virginia politician/planter Thomas Lee and Hannah Ludwell Lee, the brother of Francis Lightfoot, Philip Ludwell, William and Arthur Lee and Hannah Lee Corbin, the nephew of Captain Henry Lee, and the cousin of Squire Richard Lee.

Born at Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Lee was educated privately and at Wakefield Academy in England. From 1758-1775 he served in the House of Burgesses, and sat in the Continental Congress from 1774-79, 1784-85, and 1787. He also sat in the Virginia legislature in 1777, 1780, and 1785. He sat in the Virginia constitutional ratification convention in 1788 (opposing ratification), and was elected to the first U.S. Senate, serving from 1789 until 1792.

Lee had four surviving children with his first wife, Anne Aylett (1738-1768) and five children by his second wife, Anne Gaskins Pinckard.

Lee died at his Westmoreland County plantation Chantilly in 1794.

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la meva bibliotecaLee's library as cataloged here is taken from the probate inventory of his estate, taken 1 August 1794. It includes lists of broken sets as well as books bequeathed by Lee to his sons Cassius and Francis Lightfoot.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Do you know of additional books which should be included here? Please contact Libraries of Early America coordinator Jeremy Dibbell.

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Nom realRichard Henry Lee

UbicacióWestmoreland County, VA

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The young lawyer's recreation being a choice collection of several pleasant cases, passages, and customs in the law for the entertainment as well as profit of the reader de Philonomus

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A collection of all the statutes now in force, relating to the excise: with an abridgment of the said statutes, de Great Britain (Parliament)

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The book of oaths. And the several forms thereof, both ancient and modern, faithfully collected out of sundry authentick books of records, not heretofore extant

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A collection of such of the orders heretofore used in Chancery; with such alterations and additions thereunto, as the Right Honourable Edward earle of Clarendon lord chancellor of England de Great Britain (Court of Chancery)

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Studii legalis ratio: or, Directions for the study of the law, under these heads: the qualifications for, nature, means, method, time and place of the study de William Phillips

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