 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.  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Strana 170autor/autoři: Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 str.
...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, still haunted the minds of marry. For this reason those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1906 - 330 str.
...reported and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a commeS of the whole. the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to S. Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on... | |
 | John Hampden Hazelton - 1906 - 676 str.
...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 2*. 3* and 4'.h days of July, were, in the evening... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 str.
...reported and lain 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...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... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1923 - 714 str.
...referred. Many discounted the value of these friends at first. Jefferson was one of these and he wrote: "The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. " This was written while the Declaration was under discussion in Congress. But some of these oversea... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1924 - 690 str.
...reported & lain on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a commee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina ana Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary... | |
 | Everett H. Emerson - 1977 - 328 str.
...far more human and necessary. . But the passage was stricken in complaisance to what Jefferson called "the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with." As much as the revisions altered the meaning of the draft, they nevertheless served its governing intention.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1910 - 1448 str.
...notes (Jefferson's Writings, i. 47 note). referred to a commee of the whole. The pusillanimous iilea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who h:ul never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 str.
...for the same reason so many of them had dragged their feet on the question of independence itself. "The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many," Jefferson recalled. "For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England... | |
 | Jinping Wu - 2000 - 180 str.
...the Declaration of Independence: The clause . . . reprobating the enslaving of the inhabitants from Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who Responding to the Call of His Times l 7 had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves,... | |
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