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... successful , for only some latent defect , some inability to be successful at home , drove men as brilliant as Small and Fauquier to a distant colony . In the Governor's case we know what the defect was : it was an immoderate love of ...
... successful , for only some latent defect , some inability to be successful at home , drove men as brilliant as Small and Fauquier to a distant colony . In the Governor's case we know what the defect was : it was an immoderate love of ...
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... successfully can only be ascribed to the support of Wythe and Fauquier . That the adventure was successful is apparent from the personal financial records which Jeffer- son , as throughout life , kept so carefully . In 1767 , the year ...
... successfully can only be ascribed to the support of Wythe and Fauquier . That the adventure was successful is apparent from the personal financial records which Jeffer- son , as throughout life , kept so carefully . In 1767 , the year ...
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... successful in Massachusetts she should take their children and " fly to the woods . " If the British had been successful in the war , the patriots , like the Boers , would have fled into the interior and founded one or more little re ...
... successful in Massachusetts she should take their children and " fly to the woods . " If the British had been successful in the war , the patriots , like the Boers , would have fled into the interior and founded one or more little re ...
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