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... , in fact , one strong motive for the introduction of negro slavery , and to a very considerable extent is the unwritten social law at this day . Rail - splitters , tenants of log - cabins , 4 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
... , in fact , one strong motive for the introduction of negro slavery , and to a very considerable extent is the unwritten social law at this day . Rail - splitters , tenants of log - cabins , 4 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
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... strong on the hustings ; but if society ever forgives them at all , it is because the Statute of Limitations has made their crime of manual labor stale , and there is a certainty that the offense will not be repeated . Peter Jefferson ...
... strong on the hustings ; but if society ever forgives them at all , it is because the Statute of Limitations has made their crime of manual labor stale , and there is a certainty that the offense will not be repeated . Peter Jefferson ...
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... strong mind , seems to speedily have become the representative man of his part of the State . He was a justice at the time when the jurisdiction of the office enabled the court to practically control many of the civil affairs of the ...
... strong mind , seems to speedily have become the representative man of his part of the State . He was a justice at the time when the jurisdiction of the office enabled the court to practically control many of the civil affairs of the ...
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... father's sound advice ; the wise , strong man , deeply experienced in actual life , gave form and direction to the ideas of the boy . The lad was eleven years old when George Washington , away off in 8 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
... father's sound advice ; the wise , strong man , deeply experienced in actual life , gave form and direction to the ideas of the boy . The lad was eleven years old when George Washington , away off in 8 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
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... might have seen again the tall Indian whose oratory had charmed him that moonlight evening in Virginia so many years before . But it was no longer Ocono- stata the proud , the strong , the magnetic ; 10 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
... might have seen again the tall Indian whose oratory had charmed him that moonlight evening in Virginia so many years before . But it was no longer Ocono- stata the proud , the strong , the magnetic ; 10 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
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