John Hancock
John Hancock
John Hancockwas an American merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term "John Hancock" has become, in the United States, a synonym for a signature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 January 1737
CountryUnited States of America
They didn't annex them, but now the other property has been annexed and these adverse things are happening to them without any dialogue to speak of. They need to have a voice, and their voice needs to be heard.
A lot of the focus, at even the venues that support underground music, seems to be less on live music groups and more on records by other, more well-known national acts.
It's really hurting drivers because of the cost of fuel.
There's only so many priorities that you can fund. What you choose to target, you need to win.
The residents that are there are really concerned they're being disenfranchised, and they don't have a voice in what's going to happen to them.
RSPCA Dog of the Year is an opportunity for dogs which were once unwanted to take centre stage with their new owners and show just what fun and loving pets rescue dogs can make,
Speed is the number one thing trucks can do, if they slow down every 10 miles per hour, they save a mile per gallon.
I don't think we are going to see a big downdraft here, ... It's going to be a more selective market. It's been very easy, frankly, in technology over the past seven or eight months since the market bottomed in October.
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.
I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .
It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone....