Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson: With Particular Reference to the Attack They Contain on the Memory of the Late Gen. Henry Lee ; in a Series of LettersJ. Dobson, 1839 - 262 páginas |
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... never said any thing derogatory to General Marshall ; but on the contrary , I really should give him my vote for Congress , preferably to any citizen in the state at this juncture , one only excepted , and that one is in another line ...
... never said any thing derogatory to General Marshall ; but on the contrary , I really should give him my vote for Congress , preferably to any citizen in the state at this juncture , one only excepted , and that one is in another line ...
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... this unparalleled hurricane of licentiousness ; and for their institutions , attacked by a tempest of anarchy never before equalled upon earth . From all other scourges which had afflicted mankind , in every age and in every XV.
... this unparalleled hurricane of licentiousness ; and for their institutions , attacked by a tempest of anarchy never before equalled upon earth . From all other scourges which had afflicted mankind , in every age and in every XV.
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... never pronounce her name without prefixing to it some signal of respect , or some articu- lated sigh of gallantry , was entirely unworthy of him since the French regeneration ; and that instead of Madam , Mistress , Lady , words ...
... never pronounce her name without prefixing to it some signal of respect , or some articu- lated sigh of gallantry , was entirely unworthy of him since the French regeneration ; and that instead of Madam , Mistress , Lady , words ...
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... never been from under my own lock and key , or out of my own hands ; no mortal ever knew from me that these questions had been proposed . Perhaps I ought to except one person , who possesses all my confidence , as he has pos- sessed ...
... never been from under my own lock and key , or out of my own hands ; no mortal ever knew from me that these questions had been proposed . Perhaps I ought to except one person , who possesses all my confidence , as he has pos- sessed ...
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... never been derived . I have formerly men- tioned to you , that from a very early period of my life , I had laid it down as a rule of conduct , never to write a word for the public papers . From this I have never departed in a single ...
... never been derived . I have formerly men- tioned to you , that from a very early period of my life , I had laid it down as a rule of conduct , never to write a word for the public papers . From this I have never departed in a single ...
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Página 257 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Página 127 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary.
Página 39 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 190 - York. He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, what1 ever obstacles opposed.
Página 79 - By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often and as much and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
Página 188 - What a triumph for our enemies to verify their predictions ! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find, that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious ! Would to God, that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.
Página 254 - It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Página 12 - ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.
Página 81 - It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.
Página 189 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment %vas ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.