The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - 267 Seiten |
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... gratitude and respect of the Compiler ; accompanied by the wish , that his age may be as composed and happy as his past life has been arduous , honourable , and useful . ADVERTISEMENT : THIS work is a compilation exclusively ; and то ...
... gratitude and respect of the Compiler ; accompanied by the wish , that his age may be as composed and happy as his past life has been arduous , honourable , and useful . ADVERTISEMENT : THIS work is a compilation exclusively ; and то ...
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... wish- ed to continue it . Our northern brethren also , I be lieve , felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves , yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ...
... wish- ed to continue it . Our northern brethren also , I be lieve , felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves , yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ...
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... wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed ? I think not . It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrours of war as much as possible . The practice , therefore , of modern nations , of treating captive enemies ...
... wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed ? I think not . It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrours of war as much as possible . The practice , therefore , of modern nations , of treating captive enemies ...
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... wishes crossed , and their comforts torn from them , the character of whim and caprice , or , what is worse , of cruelty , fixed on us as a nation , and , to crown the whole , our own people dis- gusted with such a proceeding . I have ...
... wishes crossed , and their comforts torn from them , the character of whim and caprice , or , what is worse , of cruelty , fixed on us as a nation , and , to crown the whole , our own people dis- gusted with such a proceeding . I have ...
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... a fame , founded on the happiness , and not on the calamities of human nature ? Be this as it may , a philosopher or a soldier , I wish you personal- ly many felicities . " CHAPTER III . ON the first of June , 1779 100 LIFE OF JEFFERSON .
... a fame , founded on the happiness , and not on the calamities of human nature ? Be this as it may , a philosopher or a soldier , I wish you personal- ly many felicities . " CHAPTER III . ON the first of June , 1779 100 LIFE OF JEFFERSON .
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