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... lived and died . He enjoyed the privilege of full and free conver- sations with Dr. Wilson Carey Nicholas Randolph , the great - grandson of Thomas Jefferson , who is familiar with all the family traditions , and who is himself a ...
... lived and died . He enjoyed the privilege of full and free conver- sations with Dr. Wilson Carey Nicholas Randolph , the great - grandson of Thomas Jefferson , who is familiar with all the family traditions , and who is himself a ...
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... lived on the very borders of civil- ization . He had gone West and patented a thou- sand acres of land in the wilderness on the Ri- vanna , at a time when the Indian trails were still warm in the woods , and when the adjoining county ...
... lived on the very borders of civil- ization . He had gone West and patented a thou- sand acres of land in the wilderness on the Ri- vanna , at a time when the Indian trails were still warm in the woods , and when the adjoining county ...
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... lived ; and he delighted in applying its principles to anything and everything , large and small , useful and speculative , important and trivial , sublime and ridiculous . And yet this mas- ter of the craft , like Napoleon , rarely ...
... lived ; and he delighted in applying its principles to anything and everything , large and small , useful and speculative , important and trivial , sublime and ridiculous . And yet this mas- ter of the craft , like Napoleon , rarely ...
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... lived in Williamsburg , young Jefferson was there much of his time during the five years that he spent in preparing for the bar . Possessed of a competence , and devoted to his books , the young man was in no hurry to throw himself into ...
... lived in Williamsburg , young Jefferson was there much of his time during the five years that he spent in preparing for the bar . Possessed of a competence , and devoted to his books , the young man was in no hurry to throw himself into ...
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... lived by his sudden exhibition of su- preme oratorical powers in the celebrated Par- sons case . With neither law nor equity on his side , he won a famous victory - as so often hap- pens in the vale of tears where special Providence ...
... lived by his sudden exhibition of su- preme oratorical powers in the celebrated Par- sons case . With neither law nor equity on his side , he won a famous victory - as so often hap- pens in the vale of tears where special Providence ...
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