The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Том 1C. Knight, 1837 - 4 страница |
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... appear . It has been traced back no farther than to Mr. Jefferson's grandfather , who lived at Osborne's , in the county of Chesterfield , and who had three Of these , Thomas died young , Field settled on the southern border of the ...
... appear . It has been traced back no farther than to Mr. Jefferson's grandfather , who lived at Osborne's , in the county of Chesterfield , and who had three Of these , Thomas died young , Field settled on the southern border of the ...
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... appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round : we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast , dinner and supper , and go to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same : so that you never saw two peas more ...
... appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round : we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast , dinner and supper , and go to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same : so that you never saw two peas more ...
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... appear a little suspi cious ; but , good God ! it is impossible ! I told you our confab in the Apollo ; but I believe ... appears to give that satisfaction I could have wished ; in short , I managed in such a manner that I was tolerably ...
... appear a little suspi cious ; but , good God ! it is impossible ! I told you our confab in the Apollo ; but I believe ... appears to give that satisfaction I could have wished ; in short , I managed in such a manner that I was tolerably ...
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... appear ludicrously extravagant in the recital ; but they were practised so unobtrusively , and were accompanied with such genuine suavity of manners and carriage , that they never * This explanation of some of Mr. Jefferson's opinions I ...
... appear ludicrously extravagant in the recital ; but they were practised so unobtrusively , and were accompanied with such genuine suavity of manners and carriage , that they never * This explanation of some of Mr. Jefferson's opinions I ...
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... appears , on further inquiry , that the facts are accurately stated by Judge Marshall , and that the House of Repre- sentatives of Massachusetts , on the 7th of November , 1770 , appointed a committee to correspond with committees in ...
... appears , on further inquiry , that the facts are accurately stated by Judge Marshall , and that the House of Repre- sentatives of Massachusetts , on the 7th of November , 1770 , appointed a committee to correspond with committees in ...
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