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... arms , he shrank by a native fastidiousness from even the disturbance of a private altercation . He seems also , in his later years at least , not to have had a very high opinion of lawyers . In a letter written from Monticello to his ...
... arms , he shrank by a native fastidiousness from even the disturbance of a private altercation . He seems also , in his later years at least , not to have had a very high opinion of lawyers . In a letter written from Monticello to his ...
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... arms . Our brethren are already in the field . Why stand we here idle ? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be ... arm the colony was carried , and Jefferson was placed , with Henry , Lee , Washington , and nine others , on a com ...
... arms . Our brethren are already in the field . Why stand we here idle ? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be ... arm the colony was carried , and Jefferson was placed , with Henry , Lee , Washington , and nine others , on a com ...
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... proposals . The wounding of two young men who had entered the magazine to secure arms , by spring- guns trained on the doors , raised such a storm against the " murderous governor " in Williamsburg that Lord 28 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... proposals . The wounding of two young men who had entered the magazine to secure arms , by spring- guns trained on the doors , raised such a storm against the " murderous governor " in Williamsburg that Lord 28 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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... arms of England ; and in England itself we had to convince the Tories of our candor and the Whigs of our courage . It was not long before the masterly pen of Jeffer- son was called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of ...
... arms of England ; and in England itself we had to convince the Tories of our candor and the Whigs of our courage . It was not long before the masterly pen of Jeffer- son was called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of ...
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... Arms are worth all the rest of the paper . They are ner- vous , forceful , and thoroughly radical . It is from them that the epigrammatic phrases are often quoted : " Our cause is just , our union is perfect , ' " resolved rather to die ...
... Arms are worth all the rest of the paper . They are ner- vous , forceful , and thoroughly radical . It is from them that the epigrammatic phrases are often quoted : " Our cause is just , our union is perfect , ' " resolved rather to die ...
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