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With this gentleman he was also united not merely by the ties of professional
connexion , but by a congeniality of feeling and similarity of views alike
honourable to them both ; the friendship formed in youth was cemented and
strengthened by ...
With this gentleman he was also united not merely by the ties of professional
connexion , but by a congeniality of feeling and similarity of views alike
honourable to them both ; the friendship formed in youth was cemented and
strengthened by ...
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To sever so intimate a connexion could not be an undertaking of ordinary facility ;
yet such was the rash course pursued by the British ministry , that a very brief
space was sufficient to dissolve in every breast that glowed with national feeling ...
To sever so intimate a connexion could not be an undertaking of ordinary facility ;
yet such was the rash course pursued by the British ministry , that a very brief
space was sufficient to dissolve in every breast that glowed with national feeling ...
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His voice was finely toned ; his feelings acute ; his style free , and rich , and
various ; his devotion to the cause of liberty verging on enthusiasm ; and his spirit
firm and undaunted , beyond the possibility of being shaken . With what delight
the ...
His voice was finely toned ; his feelings acute ; his style free , and rich , and
various ; his devotion to the cause of liberty verging on enthusiasm ; and his spirit
firm and undaunted , beyond the possibility of being shaken . With what delight
the ...
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Actuated by such feelings and sentiments , the Convention of Virginia , on the
15th of May , 1776 , instructed their delegates in Congress to propose to that
body to declare the colonies independent of Great Britain , and appointed a
committee ...
Actuated by such feelings and sentiments , the Convention of Virginia , on the
15th of May , 1776 , instructed their delegates in Congress to propose to that
body to declare the colonies independent of Great Britain , and appointed a
committee ...
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Dr. Thacher , in his Military Journal , relates a circumstance which may show the
acuteness of their feelings , though disguised under the sportive bitterness of
raillery . " Mr. Harrison , a delegate from Virginia , " writes the doctor , “ is a large ...
Dr. Thacher , in his Military Journal , relates a circumstance which may show the
acuteness of their feelings , though disguised under the sportive bitterness of
raillery . " Mr. Harrison , a delegate from Virginia , " writes the doctor , “ is a large ...
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Página 49 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 49 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 49 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which HE has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 223 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Página 223 - I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you...
Página 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...
Página 169 - I will now tell you what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 257 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ... Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America |
| Autor | William Linn |
| Edición | 3 |
| Editor | Mack & Andrus, 1834 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 26 Sep. 2007 |
| Largo | 267 páginas |
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