 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 592 Seiten
...reported and lain on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...passages which conveyed censures on the people of England 'July 9. were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 572 Seiten
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted VOL. 1. — 1a the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 Seiten
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of marry. For this reason those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1906 - 330 Seiten
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a commeS of the whole. the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to S. Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on... | |
 | John Hampden Hazelton - 1906 - 676 Seiten
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a Committee of the whole. the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...struck out, lest they should give them offence. — the debates having taken up the greater parts of the 2*. 3* and 4'.h days of July, were, in the evening... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 Seiten
...reported and lain on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. 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 the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1923 - 714 Seiten
...referred. Many discounted the value of these friends at first. Jefferson was one of these and he wrote: "The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. " This was written while the Declaration was under discussion in Congress. But some of these oversea... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1924 - 690 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...Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina ana Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary... | |
 | Everett H. Emerson - 1977 - 328 Seiten
...far more human and necessary. . But the passage was stricken in complaisance to what Jefferson called "the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with." As much as the revisions altered the meaning of the draft, they nevertheless served its governing intention.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1910 - 1448 Seiten
...notes (Jefferson's Writings, i. 47 note). referred to a commee of the whole. The pusillanimous iilea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who h:ul never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to... | |
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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. 
