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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Página 45
... expressed in the coun- tenance and conversation of the members generally , on this debut of Mr Carr , and the hopes they conceived , as well from the talents as the patriotism it manifested . But he died within two months after , and in ...
... expressed in the coun- tenance and conversation of the members generally , on this debut of Mr Carr , and the hopes they conceived , as well from the talents as the patriotism it manifested . But he died within two months after , and in ...
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... expressed a willingness in the colonies to contribute , in their own way , to the expenses of government ; but made a traverse , at last , in prefer- ring the horrors of war to submission to the unlimited supremacy of parliament ...
... expressed a willingness in the colonies to contribute , in their own way , to the expenses of government ; but made a traverse , at last , in prefer- ring the horrors of war to submission to the unlimited supremacy of parliament ...
Página 87
... expression and of argument , which carried conviction and courage to the breast of every man . This was another ingenious stroke of policy , designed to prepare the popular mind for a favorable reception of the momentous decision in ...
... expression and of argument , which carried conviction and courage to the breast of every man . This was another ingenious stroke of policy , designed to prepare the popular mind for a favorable reception of the momentous decision in ...
Página 90
... expression was made a subject of ac- rimonious animadversion by the anti - revolutionists . On the other hand , the champions of Independence con- tended with the constancy of martyrs , for every tenet and every word of the precious ...
... expression was made a subject of ac- rimonious animadversion by the anti - revolutionists . On the other hand , the champions of Independence con- tended with the constancy of martyrs , for every tenet and every word of the precious ...
Página 118
... hitherto subject , were of a belligerent character ; and although crowned with success , were regarded by the mover in great part , as an experiment upon public opinion , in- upon dicative , ' as he expressed it , of the 118 LIFE OF.
... hitherto subject , were of a belligerent character ; and although crowned with success , were regarded by the mover in great part , as an experiment upon public opinion , in- upon dicative , ' as he expressed it , of the 118 LIFE OF.
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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.