 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 Seiten
...the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusilanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater part of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were, in the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1891 - 538 Seiten
...committee of the whole. The pusil| lanimous idea that we had friends in England 'worth keeping terms with j still haunted the minds of many. For this reason,...reprobating the enslaving the / inhabitants of Africa, waa struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the... | |
 | 1894 - 844 Seiten
...the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusilanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater part of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were, in the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 Seiten
...before "acquiesce" was inserted, " We must therefor?." In reference to this omission Jefferson says : "The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...were struck out, lest they should give them offence." 31. Omitted, and after "separation" was added: " and hold them as -<ve hold the rest of mankind, enemies... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 Seiten
...parts." In regard to the changes made by Congress in his manuscript, Jefferson afterwards wrote : " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...England were struck out, lest they should give them offense. The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving of the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 Seiten
...2116. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, People of England and. — The pusillanimous idea that we had any friends in England worth keeping terms with, still...many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. — AUTOBIOGRAPHY.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 Seiten
...terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. — AUTOBIOGRAPHY, i, 19. FORD ED., i, 28. (1821.) 2117. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Pictures of.—... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 Seiten
...reported & lain on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a commee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslav-"< ing the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 Seiten
...before "acquiesce" was inserted, " We must therefore." la reference to this omission Jefferson says : " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...were struck out, lest they should give them offence." 31. Omitted, and after " separation " was added : " and hold them as ive hold the rest of mankind,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 550 Seiten
...table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred tb a committee of the whole. The pu'sillaninioiis idea that We had friends in England Worth keeping...on the people of England Were struck out, lest they give them offence. The debates Imving taken up the greater parts of the id, 3d and 4th days of July,... | |
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The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. 
