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Thornton, William

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British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect (1759-1828)

Born 1759
Died 1828

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  • Cover of: Cadmus: or, a treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak

    First published in 1793 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: North Carolina Gold-Mine Company

    First published in 1806 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Cadmus, or, A treatise on the elements of written language: illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy : with an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak

    First published in 1793 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The counterpoise: being thoughts on a militia and a standing army. By W---- T----, Esq; The second edition, with large improvements. To which are added. an abstract of the Acts of Parliament now in force relating to the militia, and two speeches ...

    First published in 1752 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Outlines of a constitution for united North & South Columbia

    First published in 1815 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Political economy: founded in justice and humanity. In a letter to a friend

    First published in 1804 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Short account of the origin of steam boats: written in 1810, and now committed to the press

    First published in 1814 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Political economy, founded in justice and humanity: in a letter to a friend

    First published in 1804 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Speech in the House of Commons, on Thursday, 7 May, 1818: on his motion to repeal the declarations against the belief of transubstantiation, and asserting the worship of the Church of Rome to be idolatrous

    First published in 1818 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: To the members of the House of Representatives of the United States: Gentlemen, I consider it as a duty ... to correct some unfounded statements made by Mr. Benjamin H. Latrobe ..

    First published in 1805 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Papers of William Thornton

    First published in 1995 — 1 edition
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We need a photo of Thornton, William

British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect (1759-1828)

Born 1759
Died 1828

Subjects

Alphabet, Deaf, History, Means of communication, Phonetic alphabet, Slavery, Apologetic works, Apologetics, Architects, Catholic Church, Controversial literature, Correspondence, Early works to 1800, Education of Hearing Disabled, Gold mines and mining, Language, Language and languages, Nonverbal Communication, North Carolina Gold-Mine Company, Orthography and spelling, Politics and government, Spelling reform, Steam-navigation, Steamboats, Stocks

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United States, North Carolina

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), William Thornton (1759-1828)

Time

19th century

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import