...scruples.* — AUTOBIOGRAPHY, i, n. FORD ED., i, 17(1821.) 2217. DICKINSON (John), Congress and. — Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to...it with scarcely any amendment. The disgust against this humility was general : and Mr. Dickinson's delight at its passage was the only circumstance which...

...4. paragraphs & half of the preceding one. We approved & reported it to Congress, who accepted it. Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to...their second petition to the king according to his own ideas,1 and passing it with scarcely any amendment. The disgust against this humility was general;...

...enemies to a greater distance. At the conclusion, therefore, of the late war, the most glorious and 1 "Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence...ideas, and passing it with scarcely any amendment." Jefferson, Autobiography, in his Writings (Ford), 1,17. advantageous that ever had been carried on...

...enemies to a greater distance. At the conclusion, therefore, of the late war, the most glorious and 1 "Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence...any respectable part of our body, in permitting him I to draw their second petition to the King according to his own ideas, and passing it '.with scarcely...

...and so able a one that he was greatly indulged even by those who could not feel his scruples . . . Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to...it with scarcely any amendment. the disgust against it's humility was general ; and mr Dickinson's delight at 38 it's passage was the only circumstance...

...paragraphs and half of the preceding one. We approved and reported it to Congress, who accepted it. Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to...it with scarcely any amendment. The disgust against this humility was general ; and Mr. Dickinson's delight at its passage was the only circumstance which...

...about encroaching on the reserve of another Colony ; the General Congress felt, as Jefferson said, a ' great desire not to go too fast for any respectable part ' of the body ; and the reasons for not estranging New York had extraordinary force. Every Colony and the...

...uncertainty as to the success of the petition. Jefferson wrote of the second petition to the king. "Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence...Dickinson, and of their great desire not to go too (1) Ford, Jour, of Cong. II, 65. (2) Bancroft, Op. Cit. IV., 200. (3) Ford, Jour. of Cong. II., 80....

...compelled Congress again " to whine in the Style of humble petitioners to the king." Jefferson said: "Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence...ideas, and passing it with scarcely any amendment." — " Autobiography," in Jefferson's Works, ed. PL Ford, Vol. I, p. 17. the rebellion of the American...

...compelled Congress again " to whine in the Style of humble petitioners to the king." Jefferson said: "Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence...ideas, and passing it with scarcely any amendment." — " Autobiography," in Jefferson's Works, ed. PL Ford, Vol. I, p. 17the rebellion of the American...