The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - 267 Seiten |
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... considerable length of time ; the nation appeared to have fallen into an apathy or insensibility to their situation ; although the duty on tea was not yet repealed , and the declaratory act of a right in the Bri- tish parliament to bind ...
... considerable length of time ; the nation appeared to have fallen into an apathy or insensibility to their situation ; although the duty on tea was not yet repealed , and the declaratory act of a right in the Bri- tish parliament to bind ...
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... considerable reputation , and likewise the dangerous honour of having his name placed on a list of proscrip- tions in a bill of attainder , which was commenced in one of the houses of parliament , but was speedily sup- pressed . In the ...
... considerable reputation , and likewise the dangerous honour of having his name placed on a list of proscrip- tions in a bill of attainder , which was commenced in one of the houses of parliament , but was speedily sup- pressed . In the ...
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... considerable carriers of them to others . The debates having taken up the greater part of the 2d , 3d , and 4th days of July , were , on the evening of the last , closed ; the declaration was reported by the committee , agreed to by the ...
... considerable carriers of them to others . The debates having taken up the greater part of the 2d , 3d , and 4th days of July , were , on the evening of the last , closed ; the declaration was reported by the committee , agreed to by the ...
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... considerable inhabitants then convened at a ban- quet prepared in the council chamber , where they drank toasts to the perpetuity and prosperity of the United States , to the American Congress , to General Washington , to the success of ...
... considerable inhabitants then convened at a ban- quet prepared in the council chamber , where they drank toasts to the perpetuity and prosperity of the United States , to the American Congress , to General Washington , to the success of ...
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... all the world , friends , foes , and neutrals , Let us apply this : the officers , after considerable hard- ships , have all procured quarters comfortable and sat- isfactory to them . In order to do this , LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 95.
... all the world , friends , foes , and neutrals , Let us apply this : the officers , after considerable hard- ships , have all procured quarters comfortable and sat- isfactory to them . In order to do this , LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 95.
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Seite 224 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Seite 49 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Seite 223 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans ; we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Seite 47 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 49 - In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. " A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a [free] people who mean to be free.
Seite 62 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Seite 224 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels, in the form of kings, to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Seite 225 - ... bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And may ' that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace...
Seite 225 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Seite 257 - May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.