Life of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections from the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivalled Private Correspondence. By B. L. RaynerLilly, Wait, Colman, & Holden, 1834 - 431 páginas |
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... enemy . His measures for extending the western es- tablishments of Virginia - Success . Virginia cedes her unappro- priated territory to the United States - Effect of this measure , pp . 157-164 . Re - elected Governor . Distressing ...
... enemy . His measures for extending the western es- tablishments of Virginia - Success . Virginia cedes her unappro- priated territory to the United States - Effect of this measure , pp . 157-164 . Re - elected Governor . Distressing ...
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... enemies . The tone of these resolutions was so strong as to excite , for the first time , the displeasure of the Governor , the amiable Lord Bottetourt . The House had scarcely adopted and ordered them to be entered upon their journals ...
... enemies . The tone of these resolutions was so strong as to excite , for the first time , the displeasure of the Governor , the amiable Lord Bottetourt . The House had scarcely adopted and ordered them to be entered upon their journals ...
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... which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed on us , the arms we have been com- pelled by our enemies to assume , we will , in defiance of every hazard , with unabating firmness and perseverance , employ THOMAS JEFFERSON . 75.
... which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed on us , the arms we have been com- pelled by our enemies to assume , we will , in defiance of every hazard , with unabating firmness and perseverance , employ THOMAS JEFFERSON . 75.
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... enemies , without any imputation or even suspicion of offence . They boast of their privileges and civilization , and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death . ' In our own native land , in defence of the freedom that ...
... enemies , without any imputation or even suspicion of offence . They boast of their privileges and civilization , and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death . ' In our own native land , in defence of the freedom that ...
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... enemy we have . His Minister is able , and that satisfies me , that ignorance or wickedness somewhere , controls him . In an earlier part of this contest , our petitions told him , that from our King there was but one appeal . The ad ...
... enemy we have . His Minister is able , and that satisfies me , that ignorance or wickedness somewhere , controls him . In an earlier part of this contest , our petitions told him , that from our King there was but one appeal . The ad ...
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Página 231 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 37 - 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?
Página 185 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 322 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Página 139 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Página 375 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Página 111 - 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. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise, might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Página 138 - Almighty power to do ; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others...
Página 376 - But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Página 91 - The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence.