 | American Philosophical Society - 1808 - 622 pages
...it during the 2d, 3d and 4th of July. Jefferson, in his Autobiography, says :* " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pages
...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...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...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...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 pages
...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...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 510 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...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...England were struck out, lest they should give them otfence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third, and fourth days of July,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - 1829 - 506 pages
...wortrTTceEpillg tet'tns-with^'stiH haunted the minds of many. For this tf,Tiiiiij lltofio piiVjiigft^ft'liirh conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 pages
...too, he betrays a fact in relation to New England, that is not generally known. " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out, in complaisance to... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pages
...DICKINSON. In reference to the debates on this occasion, Mr. Jefferson observes-*-" The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth 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... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...too, he betrays a fact in relation to New England, that is not generally known. ' The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping...struck out, lest they should give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out, in complaisance to... | |
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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. 
