Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Svazek 1Gray and Bowen, 1830 - Počet stran: 466 |
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... occasion . This portion of the work derives peculiar value from its perfect authenticity , being all in the hand - writing of that distinguished member of the body ; from the certainty that this is the first disclosure to the world of ...
... occasion . This portion of the work derives peculiar value from its perfect authenticity , being all in the hand - writing of that distinguished member of the body ; from the certainty that this is the first disclosure to the world of ...
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... occasion . The people met generally , with anxiety and alarm in their countenances , and the effect of the day , through the whole colony , was like a shock of electricity , arousing every man and placing him erect and solidly on his ...
... occasion . The people met generally , with anxiety and alarm in their countenances , and the effect of the day , through the whole colony , was like a shock of electricity , arousing every man and placing him erect and solidly on his ...
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... occasion as little delay as possible , a committee was appointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence . The committee were John Adams , Dr. Franklin , Roger Sherman , Robert R. Livingston , and myself . Committees were also ...
... occasion as little delay as possible , a committee was appointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence . The committee were John Adams , Dr. Franklin , Roger Sherman , Robert R. Livingston , and myself . Committees were also ...
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... occasion of a trifling but wordy debate , asked me how I could sit in silence , hearing so much false reasoning , which a word should refute ? I observed to him , that to refute indeed was easy , but to silence impossible ; that in ...
... occasion of a trifling but wordy debate , asked me how I could sit in silence , hearing so much false reasoning , which a word should refute ? I observed to him , that to refute indeed was easy , but to silence impossible ; that in ...
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... occasion for a particular one . I thought this a good occasion to embody their substance , which I did in the order of Mr. Marbois ' queries , so as to answer his wish , and to arrange them for my own use . Some friends , to whom they ...
... occasion for a particular one . I thought this a good occasion to embody their substance , which I did in the order of Mr. Marbois ' queries , so as to answer his wish , and to arrange them for my own use . Some friends , to whom they ...
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Strana 18 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment 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...
Strana 17 - 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. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Strana 19 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 108 - America, and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations; and that it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading, or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Strana 19 - 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.
Strana 20 - Britain : that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them : but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited...
Strana 22 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Strana 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 40 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Strana 6 - June, on which the port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore Heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice.