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" It would give you a fever, were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. "
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 - Page 26
by Michael R. Beschloss - 2007 - 400 pages
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Life of Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States

James Parton - 1883 - 790 pages
...model." lie added these observations: "It would give j'ou a fever were I to name to you the aposhites who have gone over to these heresies, — men who were Samsons in the Held and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short,...
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The Abolition of the Presidency

Henry C. Lockwood - 1884 - 504 pages
...and for assimilating us in all things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the...have had their heads shorn by the harlot, England." * It will be observed that Jefferson had great fears that the Executive would become endowed with too...
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Thomas Jefferson

John Torrey Morse - 1885 - 388 pages
...and for assimilating us iu all things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the...in the council, but who have had their heads shorn hy the harlot, England. In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained, only by unremitting...
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Notes on Thomas Jefferson

Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 190 pages
...monarchists : " It would give you a fever were I name to you the apostates who have gone over, . . . men who were Samsons in the field, and Solomons in the council." He concludes by assuring his friend Mazzei that "our liberty can only be preserved by unremitting labors...
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The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the ..., Volume 3

John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pages
...and of assimilating us in all things to the rotten, as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the...have had their heads shorn by the harlot, England. In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils....
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...and for assimilating us in all things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you, the...have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils....
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The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, Volume 1

James Parton - 1893 - 456 pages
...assimiMirg us in a.'i things to the rotten as well as the sound part of the British a-odeL It wculd give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who tu\ve gone over **> these heresies, men whe were Samsons in the St'd and Solomons in tin council, but...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pages
...and for assimilating us in all things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the...have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils....
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1795-1801

Thomas Jefferson - 1896 - 544 pages
...& for assimilating us in all things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the...these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their | heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816-1826

Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pages
...of the censure for him. Mr. Pickering quotes, too, (page 34) the expression in the letter, of "the men who were Samsons in the field, and Solomons in the council, but who had had their heads shorn by the harlot England ; " or, as expressed in their re-translation, " the...
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