A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas JeffersonD. F. Robinson & Company, 1826 - 426 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 63
Página 9
... opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible , and as such endeavoring to im- pose them on others , hath established and maintained false re- ligions over the greater part of the world and through all time : " " That ...
... opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible , and as such endeavoring to im- pose them on others , hath established and maintained false re- ligions over the greater part of the world and through all time : " " That ...
Página 10
... opinions , being respon- sible therefor only to his God that it is impious in mortal man , whether clothed in purple or in lawn , to assume the judgment seat that the connexion between church and state is an unholy alliance , and the ...
... opinions , being respon- sible therefor only to his God that it is impious in mortal man , whether clothed in purple or in lawn , to assume the judgment seat that the connexion between church and state is an unholy alliance , and the ...
Página 24
... opinions , soon conspired to sacrifice their mutual resentments to their mutu- al admiration of each other's character ; -for them , on the an- niversary of the day when the nation was born , and on its fif- tieth anniversary too , to ...
... opinions , soon conspired to sacrifice their mutual resentments to their mutu- al admiration of each other's character ; -for them , on the an- niversary of the day when the nation was born , and on its fif- tieth anniversary too , to ...
Página 42
... opinion , the chief magistrate selected Jefferson for the highest post of honor in his cabinet . The ardent love of ... opinions began to assume that popular and democratic complexion , which af terwards distinguished his party . Under ...
... opinion , the chief magistrate selected Jefferson for the highest post of honor in his cabinet . The ardent love of ... opinions began to assume that popular and democratic complexion , which af terwards distinguished his party . Under ...
Página 43
... opinions , and upheld adverse lines of public policy , without being betray- ed into acts , which their cooler moments would disapprove ! But it could not be . The stormy elements of the revolution had not yet entirely subsided . Men ...
... opinions , and upheld adverse lines of public policy , without being betray- ed into acts , which their cooler moments would disapprove ! But it could not be . The stormy elements of the revolution had not yet entirely subsided . Men ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adams and Jefferson admiration American American Revolution appointed blessings Britain British cause character citizens civil colonies committee Constitution Continental Congress coun countrymen crown death Declaration of Independence defence dence devoted distinguished duties earth elected eloquence England EULOGY Europe fame fathers feelings fellow-citizens France Franklin freedom friends glorious glory gratitude hand happy heart Heaven honor human illustrious important interest James Otis Jefferson and Adams John Adams Jubilee July labors land liberty lives mankind Massachusetts measures memory ment mighty mind minister Monticello moral nation native never occasion opinions party Patrick Henry patriots peace Peyton Randolph political posterity President primogeniture principles Republic retirement revolution Richard Henry Lee sacred Samuel Adams solemn spirit talents Thomas Jefferson thought tion treaty United University of Virginia venerable Virginia virtues vote Washington wisdom writs of assistance
Pasajes populares
Página 212 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Página 215 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Página 242 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 101 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Página 396 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Página 424 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
Página 262 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Página 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 230 - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
Página 242 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. 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...