The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Հատոր 1Little, Brown, 1856 |
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... France and Britain , and of which the dominion of the North American continent was to be the prize , the Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts Bay , but a short month before this letter was written , had held an unprecedented extraordinary ...
... France and Britain , and of which the dominion of the North American continent was to be the prize , the Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts Bay , but a short month before this letter was written , had held an unprecedented extraordinary ...
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... France . Hume , and Gibbon , and Thomas Paine , successively followed in the British Islands ; Diderot , D'Alembert , and Helvetius in France . These were the most popular writers of the age ; and some of the most powerful of their ...
... France . Hume , and Gibbon , and Thomas Paine , successively followed in the British Islands ; Diderot , D'Alembert , and Helvetius in France . These were the most popular writers of the age ; and some of the most powerful of their ...
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... France . I seconded the motion . You know the state of the nerves of congress at that time . Although you was not then a member , you had opportunities enough to have felt the pulse of that body . Whether the effect of the motion ...
... France . I seconded the motion . You know the state of the nerves of congress at that time . Although you was not then a member , you had opportunities enough to have felt the pulse of that body . Whether the effect of the motion ...
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... France had been in the minds of other members besides Mr. Adams ; and some of the patriots , stimulated by the fear that Great Britain would be beforehand with them , had been disposed to appeal at once to the cupidity of that country ...
... France had been in the minds of other members besides Mr. Adams ; and some of the patriots , stimulated by the fear that Great Britain would be beforehand with them , had been disposed to appeal at once to the cupidity of that country ...
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... France for the five preceding centuries . Through all that period , but one judgment could be formed of the causes , which had , almost without an interval , kept those nations alienated from each other . Neither did the fear and the ...
... France for the five preceding centuries . Through all that period , but one judgment could be formed of the causes , which had , almost without an interval , kept those nations alienated from each other . Neither did the fear and the ...
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