 | Charles B. Sanford - 1984 - 260 страници
...unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third — You can write ten times better than I can' 'Well,' said Jefferson, 'If you are decided, I will do as well as I can' "5 Jefferson, working with his usual diligence after the sessions of debate of the Continental Congress... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 1994 - 228 страници
...unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third — You can write ten times better than I can." "Well, if you are decided I will do as well as I can." Adams's recollection may not have been accurate in every detail, but it is the best explanation we... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - 1996 - 292 страници
...unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third — you can write ten times better than I can." "Well, said Jefferson, "if you are decided I will do as well as I can." "Very well," said Adams, "when you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting." Jefferson then wrote the Declaration... | |
 | William John Bennett - 1997 - 440 страници
...unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third — You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will...especially that concerning Negro slavery, which, though I knew his Southern brethren would never suffer to pass in Congress, I certainly never would oppose.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 страници
...unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will...especially that concerning negro slavery, which, though I knew his Southern brethren would never suffer to pass in Congress, 1 certainly never would oppose.... | |
 | John E. Ferling - 2002 - 430 страници
...times better than I can. JEFFERSON: "Well, if you are decided, I will do as well as 1 can." ADAMS: "Very well. When you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting."108 Jefferson remembered that the committee unanimously "pressed on myself alone to make the... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2002 - 238 страници
...each be hanged if England captured them. John Adams said that Jefferson should write the Declaration. "Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can." King George, in an English cartoon, as the helpless rider of "The horse America, throwing his Master."... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2004 - 214 страници
...unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third — You can write ten times better than I can. . . ." I was delighted with its high tone and the flights...especially that concerning negro slavery, which, though I knew his Southern brethren would never suffer to pass in Congress, I certainly never would oppose.... | |
 | Jennifer Prior - 2004 - 194 страници
...write ten times better than l can." "Well," said Jefferson, "lf you are decided, l will do as well as l can." "Very well. When you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting." Writing the Declaration of Independence Passage 5 Letter from John Adams to Timothy Pickering (com.)... | |
 | Ronald Thomas Kellogg - 2007 - 393 страници
...otherwise. Reason third — You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," Jefferson replied, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can." Jefferson, for his part, denied Adams's story and insisted that a five-member committee of the Second... | |
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Reason first, you are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second, I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third, you can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said... 
