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... passed - Botetourt disbands the rebels - Meeting at the tavern- Boycott resolutions - The author pays attention in a friendly way to William Eleroy Curtis - Jefferson and slavery - Shadwell burned - Monticello begun . 60 CHAPTER V ...
... passed - Botetourt disbands the rebels - Meeting at the tavern- Boycott resolutions - The author pays attention in a friendly way to William Eleroy Curtis - Jefferson and slavery - Shadwell burned - Monticello begun . 60 CHAPTER V ...
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... passed the day with his books , varied with exercise on foot or horseback . The evening he filled with music - he and his favorite sister , Jane , singing the ballads and the psalms of that olden time to the accompaniment of his violin ...
... passed the day with his books , varied with exercise on foot or horseback . The evening he filled with music - he and his favorite sister , Jane , singing the ballads and the psalms of that olden time to the accompaniment of his violin ...
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... neighborhood , young Jefferson saw nothing of the great events that were passing on the broad stage of the world . Unfelt by him were the strug gle of Frederick the Great to turn the recent mar- 34 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
... neighborhood , young Jefferson saw nothing of the great events that were passing on the broad stage of the world . Unfelt by him were the strug gle of Frederick the Great to turn the recent mar- 34 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
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... passed , to defy the law after it had re- ceived the royal sanction . What American could ever forget that historic scene ? There are the resolutions written on the blank leaf of an old law - book . They create a sensation which grows ...
... passed , to defy the law after it had re- ceived the royal sanction . What American could ever forget that historic scene ? There are the resolutions written on the blank leaf of an old law - book . They create a sensation which grows ...
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... passed - as James Otis did . Whatever Patrick Henry said in the tempest of his oratory , he meant , and he main- tained . Neither in public nor in private would he take it back . " Cæsar had his Brutus , Charles I his Cromwell , and ...
... passed - as James Otis did . Whatever Patrick Henry said in the tempest of his oratory , he meant , and he main- tained . Neither in public nor in private would he take it back . " Cæsar had his Brutus , Charles I his Cromwell , and ...
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