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... finally , in the disastrous year of Braddock's defeat ( 1755 ) , he was elected a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses . He survived this crowning honor but two years , dying suddenly on August 17 , 1757 , near his fiftieth birth ...
... finally , in the disastrous year of Braddock's defeat ( 1755 ) , he was elected a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses . He survived this crowning honor but two years , dying suddenly on August 17 , 1757 , near his fiftieth birth ...
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... Finally , it was too late to appeal to the separate colonies with offers of conciliation . Virginia was committed to the common cause , and her delegates were sitting in the general Congress , before which his lordship's papers should ...
... Finally , it was too late to appeal to the separate colonies with offers of conciliation . Virginia was committed to the common cause , and her delegates were sitting in the general Congress , before which his lordship's papers should ...
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... Finally , toward the close of December , he left Phila- delphia , the rules requiring only that a majority of the delegation from the State be present at Con- gress . The next four and a half months he spent at Monticello . The irony of ...
... Finally , toward the close of December , he left Phila- delphia , the rules requiring only that a majority of the delegation from the State be present at Con- gress . The next four and a half months he spent at Monticello . The irony of ...
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... finally persuaded his younger colleague to do the work because he was not only a better writer but was a Virginian and a " less obnoxious and suspected " ( " distinguished " ? ) person than himself ; and that finally , after some ...
... finally persuaded his younger colleague to do the work because he was not only a better writer but was a Virginian and a " less obnoxious and suspected " ( " distinguished " ? ) person than himself ; and that finally , after some ...
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... finally for what they were fighting , hailed the Dec- laration with joy . It was read in courts and council halls , on public squares and village greens , from pul- pits and platforms . It was received with proces- sions , banquets ...
... finally for what they were fighting , hailed the Dec- laration with joy . It was read in courts and council halls , on public squares and village greens , from pul- pits and platforms . It was received with proces- sions , banquets ...
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