Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private CorrespondenceA. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 Seiten |
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... Colonies -- Agency of Mr. Jefferson in bringing Virginia into the measure - Its utility as an engine of coercion . Retaliatory resolutions of the British Parliament . Counter resolutions brought forward by Mr. Jeffer son . Germ of the ...
... Colonies -- Agency of Mr. Jefferson in bringing Virginia into the measure - Its utility as an engine of coercion . Retaliatory resolutions of the British Parliament . Counter resolutions brought forward by Mr. Jeffer son . Germ of the ...
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... Colonies from the mother country , was but the initiatory process in the grand and fundamen- tal metamorphosis through which they had to pass , in order to derive any essential advantages from the separation ; to wit , the entire ab ...
... Colonies from the mother country , was but the initiatory process in the grand and fundamen- tal metamorphosis through which they had to pass , in order to derive any essential advantages from the separation ; to wit , the entire ab ...
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... Colonies , had waxed to a crisis , which suspended the regular action of government , and summoned the attention of its functionaries to more imperious concerns . Patrick Henry , who was seven years older than Mr. Jefferson , and three ...
... Colonies , had waxed to a crisis , which suspended the regular action of government , and summoned the attention of its functionaries to more imperious concerns . Patrick Henry , who was seven years older than Mr. Jefferson , and three ...
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... Colonies in this important step . Is it possible , that the bruited restrictive system , which was so humiliating in a Jefferson and a Madison , and so heritical in 1808-9 , should owe its birth place to the ' cradle of sound principles ...
... Colonies in this important step . Is it possible , that the bruited restrictive system , which was so humiliating in a Jefferson and a Madison , and so heritical in 1808-9 , should owe its birth place to the ' cradle of sound principles ...
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... Colonies in all cases whatsoever ; the quartering of large bodies of British soldiery in the principal towns of the Colonies , at the ex- pense and incessant annoyance of the inhabitants ; the dissolution . in rapid succession , of the ...
... Colonies in all cases whatsoever ; the quartering of large bodies of British soldiery in the principal towns of the Colonies , at the ex- pense and incessant annoyance of the inhabitants ; the dissolution . in rapid succession , of the ...
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