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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... circumstance for this country , and for the mass of mankind , besides serv- ing to enhance the reputation of the author , if these works could obtain a circulation which should place them in the hands of every reader ; for if any thing ...
... circumstance for this country , and for the mass of mankind , besides serv- ing to enhance the reputation of the author , if these works could obtain a circulation which should place them in the hands of every reader ; for if any thing ...
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... Circumstances which decided the particular direction of his life . His character of Dr Small - Of George Wythe . Commences the study of Law - Extent of his researches . His de- scription of the speech of Patrick Henry against the Stamp ...
... Circumstances which decided the particular direction of his life . His character of Dr Small - Of George Wythe . Commences the study of Law - Extent of his researches . His de- scription of the speech of Patrick Henry against the Stamp ...
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... . Letter to the mayor of Washington . Particulars of his last hours . Extraordinary circumstances of his death . 414-431 , Epitaph by himself , pp . THOMAS LIFE OF JEFFERSON . CHAPTER I. THOMAS JEFFERSON was XX CONTENTS .
... . Letter to the mayor of Washington . Particulars of his last hours . Extraordinary circumstances of his death . 414-431 , Epitaph by himself , pp . THOMAS LIFE OF JEFFERSON . CHAPTER I. THOMAS JEFFERSON was XX CONTENTS .
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... circumstances of his position , is con- tained in an affectionate letter , written more than fifty years afterwards , to his grandson then in Philadelphia . It is replete with sound admonition , applicable to every condition of youth ...
... circumstances of his position , is con- tained in an affectionate letter , written more than fifty years afterwards , to his grandson then in Philadelphia . It is replete with sound admonition , applicable to every condition of youth ...
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... circumstances of my position , I was often thrown into the society of horse - racers , card - play- ers , fox hunters , scientific and professional men , and of dig- nified men ; and many a time have I asked myself , in the enthusiastic ...
... circumstances of my position , I was often thrown into the society of horse - racers , card - play- ers , fox hunters , scientific and professional men , and of dig- nified men ; and many a time have I asked myself , in the enthusiastic ...
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Página 64 - 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 on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Página 305 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 62 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Página xix - 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 133 - 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 237 - 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 79 - 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 309 - 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: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 96 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Página 97 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...