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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... favor of the colonies , and was heard with solemn and rapt attention . After having repulsed with a sort of disdain the peti- tions of the colonies , and those presented in their favor by the islands of the West Indies , and even by Eng ...
... favor of the colonies , and was heard with solemn and rapt attention . After having repulsed with a sort of disdain the peti- tions of the colonies , and those presented in their favor by the islands of the West Indies , and even by Eng ...
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... favor , with directions to lay it before the respective provincial legislatures . It was at least hoped that if the scheme did not finally succeed , it might produce disunion or discontent . Accordingly , on the first of June , 1775 ...
... favor , with directions to lay it before the respective provincial legislatures . It was at least hoped that if the scheme did not finally succeed , it might produce disunion or discontent . Accordingly , on the first of June , 1775 ...
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... favor have hitherto been ineffectual . What , then , remains to be done ? That we commit our injuries to the even - handed justice of that Being who doth no wrong , earnestly beseeching him to illuminate the councils , and prosper the ...
... favor have hitherto been ineffectual . What , then , remains to be done ? That we commit our injuries to the even - handed justice of that Being who doth no wrong , earnestly beseeching him to illuminate the councils , and prosper the ...
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... favor of the measure , though the instructions given by some of their representatives are not : That the voice of the representatives is not always consonant with the voice of the people , and that this is remarkably the case in these ...
... favor of the measure , though the instructions given by some of their representatives are not : That the voice of the representatives is not always consonant with the voice of the people , and that this is remarkably the case in these ...
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... favor of the resolution .-- Members of a different sentiment attending that morn- ing from Pennsylvania also , her vote was changed , so that the whole twelve colonies , who were authorized to vote at all , gave their voices for it ...
... favor of the resolution .-- Members of a different sentiment attending that morn- ing from Pennsylvania also , her vote was changed , so that the whole twelve colonies , who were authorized to vote at all , gave their voices for it ...
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