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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... periods have been prolific of great men . 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 ...
... periods have been prolific of great men . 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 ...
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... period ; and although bringing with them , as far as is known , no fortune be- yond that zeal and enterprise which are so useful and necessary to adventurers in a new and unknown coun- try , and no rank beyond a name which was free from ...
... period ; and although bringing with them , as far as is known , no fortune be- yond that zeal and enterprise which are so useful and necessary to adventurers in a new and unknown coun- try , and no rank beyond a name which was free from ...
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... period he de- voted himself to it , he acquired an enviable reputation ; and a monument of his professional labor and legal research still exists in a volume of reports of adjudged cases in the supreme courts of Virginia , compiled and ...
... period he de- voted himself to it , he acquired an enviable reputation ; and a monument of his professional labor and legal research still exists in a volume of reports of adjudged cases in the supreme courts of Virginia , compiled and ...
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... period that Mr. Jefferson writes : " The colonies were taxed inter- nally and externally ; their essential interests sacrificed to individuals in Great Britain ; their legislatures sus- pended ; charters annulled ; trials by juries ...
... period that Mr. Jefferson writes : " The colonies were taxed inter- nally and externally ; their essential interests sacrificed to individuals in Great Britain ; their legislatures sus- pended ; charters annulled ; trials by juries ...
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... period when the duty which man owes not only to himself but his posterity prohibits all further forbearance . Actuated by such feelings and sentiments , the Convention of Virginia , on the 15th of May , 1776 , instructed their delegates ...
... period when the duty which man owes not only to himself but his posterity prohibits all further forbearance . Actuated by such feelings and sentiments , the Convention of Virginia , on the 15th of May , 1776 , instructed their delegates ...
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