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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... Nature seems then to have exerted herself with a more than ordinary effort , and to have poured them forth with unusual fertility . But at no time or period did any country produce greater men , or those better qualified to conduct ...
... Nature seems then to have exerted herself with a more than ordinary effort , and to have poured them forth with unusual fertility . But at no time or period did any country produce greater men , or those better qualified to conduct ...
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... nature and importance of objects , and of our obligations and advantages respecting them . It rouses from pernicious indolence , and renders the sentiments and dispositions already formed most influ- ential . In a word , it has made of ...
... nature and importance of objects , and of our obligations and advantages respecting them . It rouses from pernicious indolence , and renders the sentiments and dispositions already formed most influ- ential . In a word , it has made of ...
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... , and the followers of its for- tunes ; that it then proceeded to abridge the free trade which the colonies possessed as of natural right with all parts of the world ; and that afterwards offices were 22 LIFE OF JEFFERSON .
... , and the followers of its for- tunes ; that it then proceeded to abridge the free trade which the colonies possessed as of natural right with all parts of the world ; and that afterwards offices were 22 LIFE OF JEFFERSON .
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... nature , deeply wounded by this infamous practice . That , inattentive to the necessities of his people , he had neglected for years the laws that were sent for his inspection ; and that , assuming a power , for advising the exercise of ...
... nature , deeply wounded by this infamous practice . That , inattentive to the necessities of his people , he had neglected for years the laws that were sent for his inspection ; and that , assuming a power , for advising the exercise of ...
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... nature . In all this we perceive the germe of that national declaration , which so shortly succeeded it ; many of the same bold truths , and in the same bold language . In these sentiments , however , bold as they were , his political ...
... nature . In all this we perceive the germe of that national declaration , which so shortly succeeded it ; many of the same bold truths , and in the same bold language . In these sentiments , however , bold as they were , his political ...
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