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" The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. "
Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson - Page 119
by Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 588 pages
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ..., Volumes 37-38

American Philosophical Society - 1808 - 622 pages
...debated and amended it during the 2d, 3d and 4th of July. Jefferson, in his Autobiography, says :* " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...England were struck out, lest they should give them offense. The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third and fourth days of July, were, in the...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T ..., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third and fourth days of July, were, in the...
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson ..., Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were, in the...
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson ..., Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 510 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England...were struck out, lest they should give them offence. Tne debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third, and fourth days of July, were,...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday, referred to a Committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, Mill haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people...
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The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...

Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pages
...present, EXCEPT Mr. DICKINSON. In reference to the debates on this occasion, Mr. Jefferson observes-*-" The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For mis reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and ...

William Linn - 1834 - 284 pages
...and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred it to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too,...
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Prefatory note

James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 678 pages
...terms with, still haunted the minds of many; for this reason those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out lest they...enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out, in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves,...
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Prefatory note

James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 740 pages
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a Committee of the Whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...many; for this reason those passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out lest they should give them offence. The clause too...
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