The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - Počet stran: 267 |
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... ment which became a free people , whom flattery would ill beseem , when asserting the rights of human nature . In all this we perceive the germe of that national declaration , which so shortly succeeded it ; many of the same bold truths ...
... ment which became a free people , whom flattery would ill beseem , when asserting the rights of human nature . In all this we perceive the germe of that national declaration , which so shortly succeeded it ; many of the same bold truths ...
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... ment until its final adoption , we have for the first time a correct account in actual notes of Mr. Jefferson , late- ly published , and made at the time . From these notes we propose to make liberal extracts of the most inter- esting ...
... ment until its final adoption , we have for the first time a correct account in actual notes of Mr. Jefferson , late- ly published , and made at the time . From these notes we propose to make liberal extracts of the most inter- esting ...
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... ment into which it had thrown these middle colonies , that they had not yet accommodated their minds to a separation from the mother country : That some of them had expressly forbidden their delegates to consent to such a declaration ...
... ment into which it had thrown these middle colonies , that they had not yet accommodated their minds to a separation from the mother country : That some of them had expressly forbidden their delegates to consent to such a declaration ...
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... ment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states : " For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : " For imposing taxes on us without our consent : For depriving us [ in many cases ] of the ...
... ment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states : " For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : " For imposing taxes on us without our consent : For depriving us [ in many cases ] of the ...
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... ment by a people reeking from tyranny and oppression , is a sight , which , whilst it engages the solicitous atten- tion of the patriot and philanthropist , is no less calcu- lated to alarm their fears . Smarting from their wrongs , and ...
... ment by a people reeking from tyranny and oppression , is a sight , which , whilst it engages the solicitous atten- tion of the patriot and philanthropist , is no less calcu- lated to alarm their fears . Smarting from their wrongs , and ...
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Strana 49 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.