The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett, 1843 - 267 Seiten |
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... immediately dissolved the house : but the committee met next day , prepared a circular letter to the Speakers of the other colonies , inclosing to each a copy of the resolutions , and left it in charge with their chairman to forward ...
... immediately dissolved the house : but the committee met next day , prepared a circular letter to the Speakers of the other colonies , inclosing to each a copy of the resolutions , and left it in charge with their chairman to forward ...
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... immediately addressed , the vio- lation of rights had increased in rapid and bold suc- cession ; being no longer single acts of tyranny , that might be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day ; but a series of oppressions pursued so ...
... immediately addressed , the vio- lation of rights had increased in rapid and bold suc- cession ; being no longer single acts of tyranny , that might be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day ; but a series of oppressions pursued so ...
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... the author of the obnoxious pamphlet , was threatened with a prosecution by him for high treason ; and the House of Burgesses was immediately dissolved after their 24 LIFE OF JEFFERSON . bodies of armed men, not made up of the ...
... the author of the obnoxious pamphlet , was threatened with a prosecution by him for high treason ; and the House of Burgesses was immediately dissolved after their 24 LIFE OF JEFFERSON . bodies of armed men, not made up of the ...
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... immediately dissolved after their daring publication . Notwithstanding these measures , the members met in their private capacities , and mutually signed a spirited publication , setting forth the unjust conduct of the Governor , who ...
... immediately dissolved after their daring publication . Notwithstanding these measures , the members met in their private capacities , and mutually signed a spirited publication , setting forth the unjust conduct of the Governor , who ...
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... immediately proceeded to Congress , which was then in session , and gave them the first notice they had of it . It was highly approved of by them . He had been elected on the twenty - seventh of March , 1775 , one of the members to ...
... immediately proceeded to Congress , which was then in session , and gave them the first notice they had of it . It was highly approved of by them . He had been elected on the twenty - seventh of March , 1775 , one of the members to ...
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