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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... character can now be dis- tinguished on the horizon in all their native brightness . It has been remarked , that certain stated times and periods have been prolific of great men . Nature seems then to have exerted herself with a more ...
... character can now be dis- tinguished on the horizon in all their native brightness . It has been remarked , that certain stated times and periods have been prolific of great men . Nature seems then to have exerted herself with a more ...
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... character was of a high order , a spotless integrity , sound judgement , handsome imagination , en- riched by education and reading ; quick and clear in his conceptions ; of correct and ready elocution ; im- pressing every hearer with ...
... character was of a high order , a spotless integrity , sound judgement , handsome imagination , en- riched by education and reading ; quick and clear in his conceptions ; of correct and ready elocution ; im- pressing every hearer with ...
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... character . The pamphlet having found its way to England , it was taken up by the opposition , and , with a few inter- polations by the celebrated Edmund Burke , passed through several editions . It procured for its author considerable ...
... character . The pamphlet having found its way to England , it was taken up by the opposition , and , with a few inter- polations by the celebrated Edmund Burke , passed through several editions . It procured for its author considerable ...
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... character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant , is unfit to be the ruler of a [ free ] people who mean to be free . Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured , within the short compass ...
... character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant , is unfit to be the ruler of a [ free ] people who mean to be free . Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured , within the short compass ...
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... to the world with such solemnity , gave a new character to the contest , not only in the colonies , but in Europe . Before this decisive step , the American peo , ple were regarded by many able and good men as LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 57.
... to the world with such solemnity , gave a new character to the contest , not only in the colonies , but in Europe . Before this decisive step , the American peo , ple were regarded by many able and good men as LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 57.
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