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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... lived in circumstances of considera- ble affluence . " The tradition in my father's family , " says the subject of this sketch , in his modest and in- teresting memoirs , " was , that their ancestor came to this country from Wales , and ...
... lived in circumstances of considera- ble affluence . " The tradition in my father's family , " says the subject of this sketch , in his modest and in- teresting memoirs , " was , that their ancestor came to this country from Wales , and ...
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... lived at the place in Chesterfield called Ozborne's , and owned the lands afterwards the glebe of the parish . He had three sons ; Thomas , who died young ; Field , who settled on the waters of Roanoke , and left numerous descendants ...
... lived at the place in Chesterfield called Ozborne's , and owned the lands afterwards the glebe of the parish . He had three sons ; Thomas , who died young ; Field , who settled on the waters of Roanoke , and left numerous descendants ...
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... lived until 1778 , and six daughters and two sons . To the young- est son he left his estate on James River ; to the eldest , with whose life we are engaged , the lands on which he was born , and lived , and died . Young Jefferson was ...
... lived until 1778 , and six daughters and two sons . To the young- est son he left his estate on James River ; to the eldest , with whose life we are engaged , the lands on which he was born , and lived , and died . Young Jefferson was ...
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... lived , and to unite themselves under a common sovereign ; but that no act of theirs had ever given a title to that authority , which the British par- liament arrogated ; that the crown had unjustly com- menced its encroachments , by ...
... lived , and to unite themselves under a common sovereign ; but that no act of theirs had ever given a title to that authority , which the British par- liament arrogated ; that the crown had unjustly com- menced its encroachments , by ...
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... lived in a state where the representation , originally equal , had become unequal by time and accident , he might have submitted rather than disturb govern- ment ; but that we should be very wrong to set out in this practice , when it ...
... lived in a state where the representation , originally equal , had become unequal by time and accident , he might have submitted rather than disturb govern- ment ; but that we should be very wrong to set out in this practice , when it ...
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