The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - 267 páginas |
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... labour and legal research still exists in a volume of reports of adjudged cases in the supreme courts of Virginia , compiled and digested amid the engagements of active occupation . But his energy and talents were demanded by his fellow ...
... labour and legal research still exists in a volume of reports of adjudged cases in the supreme courts of Virginia , compiled and digested amid the engagements of active occupation . But his energy and talents were demanded by his fellow ...
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... labours in subserviance to her inter- ests , and even to observe a bigoted intolerance for all religions but her own . " The difficulties with our representatives , " he writes , " were of habit and despair , not of reflection and ...
... labours in subserviance to her inter- ests , and even to observe a bigoted intolerance for all religions but her own . " The difficulties with our representatives , " he writes , " were of habit and despair , not of reflection and ...
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... labour in cattle ; but so may the southern farmer , working ten slaves ; that a state of one hundred thousand freemen can maintain no more cattle than one of one hundred thousand slaves : therefore , they have no more of that kind of ...
... labour in cattle ; but so may the southern farmer , working ten slaves ; that a state of one hundred thousand freemen can maintain no more cattle than one of one hundred thousand slaves : therefore , they have no more of that kind of ...
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... labour : the hire of a la- bourer in the southern colonies being from £ 8 to £ 12 , while in the northern it was generally £ 24 . Mr. Wilson said , that if this amendment should take place , the southern colonies would have all the bene ...
... labour : the hire of a la- bourer in the southern colonies being from £ 8 to £ 12 , while in the northern it was generally £ 24 . Mr. Wilson said , that if this amendment should take place , the southern colonies would have all the bene ...
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... labour generally , but negro women are not . In this , then , the southern states have an advantage , as the article now stands . It has sometimes been said that slavery is necessary , because the commodities they raise would be too ...
... labour generally , but negro women are not . In this , then , the southern states have an advantage , as the article now stands . It has sometimes been said that slavery is necessary , because the commodities they raise would be too ...
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