Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . aving confided it to the care of his friend, Joel B°rlow, it was pub-lished. On the fall of Robespierre, he was released ; in 1795 he published thesecond part of his Age of Reason ; and, in May, 1796, he addressed to thecouncil of five hundred a work entitled, the Decline and Fall of the Systemof Finance in England, and also published
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . aving confided it to the care of his friend, Joel B°rlow, it was pub-lished. On the fall of Robespierre, he was released ; in 1795 he published thesecond part of his Age of Reason ; and, in May, 1796, he addressed to thecouncil of five hundred a work entitled, the Decline and Fall of the Systemof Finance in England, and also published his pamphlet entitled AgrarianJustice. Fearful of being captured by English cruisers, he remained in Francetill August, 180^, when he embarked for America, and reached Baltimore thefollowing October. His subsequent life was by no means happy ; for, althoughoccupied in various mechanical speculations, and other engrossing pursuits, andpossessed of a decent competence, his attacks upon the Bible and upon Wash-ington, exceedingly narrowed his circle of acquaintance ; and his intemperancetended to the injury of his health, and the ultimate production of a complicationof disorders, to which he fell a victim, June 8, 1809, aged seventy4wa 35C CHARLES CHARLES CARROLL. CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton, was born on the twentieth ot September,1737, at Annapolis, in the state of Maryland. He descended from a nighlyrespectable Irish family, who had emigrated to this country in the reign ofWilliam and Mary, and were distinguished as patriots in the troubles of thecolony, which soon after that period sprung up. For a while, the catholicswere persecuted and deprived of the right of suffrage ; but, by a manly re-sistance to tyranny, they were restored to the privileges granted to them bycharter. At a very early age, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was sent to St. Omars, tobe educated ; from thence, after a short time, He was removed to Rheims, tothe college of Louis Le Grand; and from
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