Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private CorrespondenceA. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 páginas |
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... everlasting remembrance . If the present volume shall have been instrumental in promoting these objects , it will have fulfilled its des- tiny . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Nativity of Mr. Jefferson . Peculiarity 10 PREFACE .
... everlasting remembrance . If the present volume shall have been instrumental in promoting these objects , it will have fulfilled its des- tiny . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Nativity of Mr. Jefferson . Peculiarity 10 PREFACE .
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... present leader , was promoting petitions for submission to British power and British usurpation . While under her present counsels , she must be contented to be nothing ; as having a vote , indeed , to be counted , but not respected ...
... present leader , was promoting petitions for submission to British power and British usurpation . While under her present counsels , she must be contented to be nothing ; as having a vote , indeed , to be counted , but not respected ...
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... present relations with Hanover , having the same executive chief , but no other neces- sary political connection ; and that our emigration from England to this country , gave her no more rights over us , than the emigra- tions of the ...
... present relations with Hanover , having the same executive chief , but no other neces- sary political connection ; and that our emigration from England to this country , gave her no more rights over us , than the emigra- tions of the ...
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... present numbers , that they may be the cheaper bargain , whenever they shall become worth a pur- chase . " One of the articles of impeachment againt Tresilian and the other Judges of Westminister Hall , in the reign of Richard the ...
... present numbers , that they may be the cheaper bargain , whenever they shall become worth a pur- chase . " One of the articles of impeachment againt Tresilian and the other Judges of Westminister Hall , in the reign of Richard the ...
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... present condition imposed . Nor is it to be inferred , that even he aimed at independence as a measure desirable in the abstract ; but as an awful alternative only , a matter of the last In this spirit , he had mingled with his ...
... present condition imposed . Nor is it to be inferred , that even he aimed at independence as a measure desirable in the abstract ; but as an awful alternative only , a matter of the last In this spirit , he had mingled with his ...
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Página 417 - If there be any among us who would 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.
Página 140 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 38 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Página 168 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Página 163 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Página 117 - 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.
Página 474 - I believe this on the contrary the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Página 418 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Página 163 - ... established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Página 394 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.