The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including All of His Important Utterances on Public QuestionsBowen-Merrill Company, 1900 - Počet stran: 474 |
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... Court were in session , prominent personages from all parts of the colony resided there with their families , and the winter season was passed in a round of pleasures and imposing functions . By reason of his connection with the ...
... Court were in session , prominent personages from all parts of the colony resided there with their families , and the winter season was passed in a round of pleasures and imposing functions . By reason of his connection with the ...
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... Court of Virginia . He was now in his twenty - fourth year . JEFFERSON AS A FARMER AND LAWYER . The civilization of Virginia in the eighteenth century was uniformly and universally rural . When Jefferson at the age of seventeen entered ...
... Court of Virginia . He was now in his twenty - fourth year . JEFFERSON AS A FARMER AND LAWYER . The civilization of Virginia in the eighteenth century was uniformly and universally rural . When Jefferson at the age of seventeen entered ...
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... court thor- oughly prepared , and a faculty for summarizing a case , however complex or vast , in a few short sentences , made it possible for him to dispense with the tricks of the fluent advocate . During the first year of his ...
... court thor- oughly prepared , and a faculty for summarizing a case , however complex or vast , in a few short sentences , made it possible for him to dispense with the tricks of the fluent advocate . During the first year of his ...
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... court , offices which his father before him had filled . In 1769 he presented himself to the voters of Albemarle County as candidate for the House of Bur- gesses , an office which had also been held by his father . In accordance with ...
... court , offices which his father before him had filled . In 1769 he presented himself to the voters of Albemarle County as candidate for the House of Bur- gesses , an office which had also been held by his father . In accordance with ...
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... courts , declared the right of the colonies to concur and co - operate in seeking redress of grievances . On account of those resolutions Lord Botetourt , the royal Gov- ernor , promptly dissolved the Burgesses , who , as private citi ...
... courts , declared the right of the colonies to concur and co - operate in seeking redress of grievances . On account of those resolutions Lord Botetourt , the royal Gov- ernor , promptly dissolved the Burgesses , who , as private citi ...
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Strana 261 - 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. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Strana 384 - 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.
Strana 355 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Strana 248 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Strana 232 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Strana 261 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Strana 260 - 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 383 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Strana 259 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 150 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.