Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volumen1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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... suppose of eighty millions , would require twelve figures , to wit , 115,200,000,000 Units . Such a system of money - arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society . I proposed , therefore , instead of ...
... suppose of eighty millions , would require twelve figures , to wit , 115,200,000,000 Units . Such a system of money - arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society . I proposed , therefore , instead of ...
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... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up I from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , p . 87 , and from an inexact attention to its ...
... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up I from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , p . 87 , and from an inexact attention to its ...
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... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , p . 87 , and from an inexact attention to its ...
... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , p . 87 , and from an inexact attention to its ...
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... suppose , therefore , that these resolutions were not received , as you think , while the House of Burgesses was in session in March , 1773 , but a few days after we rose , and were pro- bably what was sent by the messenger who crossed ...
... suppose , therefore , that these resolutions were not received , as you think , while the House of Burgesses was in session in March , 1773 , but a few days after we rose , and were pro- bably what was sent by the messenger who crossed ...
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... suppose the question of right suspended , in order to examine this act on principles of justice . An act of Parliament had been passed , imposing duties on teas , to be paid in America , against which act the Americans had protested ...
... suppose the question of right suspended , in order to examine this act on principles of justice . An act of Parliament had been passed , imposing duties on teas , to be paid in America , against which act the Americans had protested ...
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Página 6 - 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 4 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 9 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 7 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Página 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Página 8 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...
Página 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; 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 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Página 7 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...