The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett, 1843 - 267 páginas |
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... England and Scotland , to which let every one ascribe the faith and merit he chooses . " Thomas Jefferson was born April 2 , old style , 1743 , at Shadwell , in Albemarle county , Virginia , and was the eldest of eight children . His ...
... England and Scotland , to which let every one ascribe the faith and merit he chooses . " Thomas Jefferson was born April 2 , old style , 1743 , at Shadwell , in Albemarle county , Virginia , and was the eldest of eight children . His ...
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... England was great in all the colonies , and in Virginia it was more than usually strong ; many of the princi- pal families , according to a popular writer , were con > nected with it by the closest ties of consanguinity ; the young men ...
... England was great in all the colonies , and in Virginia it was more than usually strong ; many of the princi- pal families , according to a popular writer , were con > nected with it by the closest ties of consanguinity ; the young men ...
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... England to be tried for offences committed here , was thought to have aimed a deadly stab at the most sacred rights of the citizen , and as demanding the attention of the legislature of Virginia . The subject was taken up and considered ...
... England to be tried for offences committed here , was thought to have aimed a deadly stab at the most sacred rights of the citizen , and as demanding the attention of the legislature of Virginia . The subject was taken up and considered ...
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... England to this country gave her no more right over us , than the emigration of the Danes and Saxons gave to the authorities of the mother country over England . " In this doctrine , however , " says he , " I had never been able to get ...
... England to this country gave her no more right over us , than the emigration of the Danes and Saxons gave to the authorities of the mother country over England . " In this doctrine , however , " says he , " I had never been able to get ...
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... England ? Our other patriots , Randolph , the Lees , Nicholas , and Pendleton , stopped at the half - way house of John Dickinson , who admitted that England had a right to regulate our commerce and to lay duties on it for the purpose ...
... England ? Our other patriots , Randolph , the Lees , Nicholas , and Pendleton , stopped at the half - way house of John Dickinson , who admitted that England had a right to regulate our commerce and to lay duties on it for the purpose ...
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