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We next find him in the House of Burgesses. Well has it been said to-night, that the mother Common wealth could hardly claim him, for his great doctrines have extended over the world. Here he was in advance of Patrick Henry, not only in contending against taxation without representation, but in asserting the right of expatriation and the freedom and independence of Virginia.