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Page 23
... asking by what right one hundred and sixty thousand electors in the island of Great Britain pre- tended to give laws to four million in the states ( note the word ! ) of America . When the colonists left England , Jefferson maintained ...
... asking by what right one hundred and sixty thousand electors in the island of Great Britain pre- tended to give laws to four million in the states ( note the word ! ) of America . When the colonists left England , Jefferson maintained ...
Page 24
... asking a boon . The customary bending of the knee and lavishing of obsequious adjectives are wanting . Instead , there is protest , remon- strance , defiance , warning , and even exhortation . The young lawyer of Albemarle County dares ...
... asking a boon . The customary bending of the knee and lavishing of obsequious adjectives are wanting . Instead , there is protest , remon- strance , defiance , warning , and even exhortation . The young lawyer of Albemarle County dares ...
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... asked Jefferson to remain at Wil- liamsburg , however , long enough to prepare the answer of the burgesses to Lord North . The paper which Jefferson drew up , and which was adopted on June 10 , was a respectful but firm rejection of the ...
... asked Jefferson to remain at Wil- liamsburg , however , long enough to prepare the answer of the burgesses to Lord North . The paper which Jefferson drew up , and which was adopted on June 10 , was a respectful but firm rejection of the ...
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... asked to " amend " Jefferson's draft ) . But there is no more , or very little more , of Jefferson's draft in the last four and a half paragraphs than in the rest of the paper . We are at a loss to explain Jefferson's explicit statement ...
... asked to " amend " Jefferson's draft ) . But there is no more , or very little more , of Jefferson's draft in the last four and a half paragraphs than in the rest of the paper . We are at a loss to explain Jefferson's explicit statement ...
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... asked to serve on this commission with Franklin and Deane , but another service , which we shall study in our next chapter , appealed to him with a clearer call , and Arthur Lee was substituted in his place . That foreign nations helped ...
... asked to serve on this commission with Franklin and Deane , but another service , which we shall study in our next chapter , appealed to him with a clearer call , and Arthur Lee was substituted in his place . That foreign nations helped ...
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