The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - 267 páginas |
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... effect : That the people of the middle colonies ( Maryland , Delaware , Pennsylvania , the Jerseys , and New York ) were not yet ripe for bidding adieu to British connex ion , but that they were fast ripening , and LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 35.
... effect : That the people of the middle colonies ( Maryland , Delaware , Pennsylvania , the Jerseys , and New York ) were not yet ripe for bidding adieu to British connex ion , but that they were fast ripening , and LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 35.
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... effect of the resolution of the 15th of May has proved this , which , raising the murmurs of some in the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland , called forth the opposing voice of the freer part of the people , and proved them to be the ...
... effect of the resolution of the 15th of May has proved this , which , raising the murmurs of some in the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland , called forth the opposing voice of the freer part of the people , and proved them to be the ...
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... effect their safety and happiness . Prudence , indeed , will dictate , that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly , all ex- perience hath shown that mankind are more disposed ...
... effect their safety and happiness . Prudence , indeed , will dictate , that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly , all ex- perience hath shown that mankind are more disposed ...
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... effect produ- ced on the publick mind by the boldness and unanimity manifested on this occasion by the delegates of the several colonies , operated on the general confidence of the people as much as a similar declaration would have done ...
... effect produ- ced on the publick mind by the boldness and unanimity manifested on this occasion by the delegates of the several colonies , operated on the general confidence of the people as much as a similar declaration would have done ...
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... effect a compromise of this difficult question . He was of opinion , the smaller colonies would lose their rights , if they were not , in some in- stances , allowed an equal vote ; and therefore that a discrimination should take place ...
... effect a compromise of this difficult question . He was of opinion , the smaller colonies would lose their rights , if they were not , in some in- stances , allowed an equal vote ; and therefore that a discrimination should take place ...
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Página 49 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 49 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 49 - ... 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...
Página 223 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Página 223 - I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you...
Página 62 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 169 - I will now tell you what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations.
Página 225 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Página 257 - May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Página 257 - 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.