 | American Philosophical Society - 1898 - 622 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 510 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pagine
...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... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Linn - 1834 - 284 pagine
...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,... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 678 pagine
...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,... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 740 pagine
...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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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. 
