Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Svazek 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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Strana vii
... French Revolution , as exhibited to the obser- vation of the Author , during his diplomatic residence at Paris . The narrative , with the intermingled re- flections on the character and consequences of that Revolution , fill a ...
... French Revolution , as exhibited to the obser- vation of the Author , during his diplomatic residence at Paris . The narrative , with the intermingled re- flections on the character and consequences of that Revolution , fill a ...
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... French ; and on the death of my father , I went to the Reverend Mr. Maury , a correct classical scho- lar , with whom I continued two years ; and then , to wit , in the spring of 1760 , went to William and Mary college , where I ...
... French ; and on the death of my father , I went to the Reverend Mr. Maury , a correct classical scho- lar , with whom I continued two years ; and then , to wit , in the spring of 1760 , went to William and Mary college , where I ...
Strana 12
... French court , from the agent whom we had sent to Paris for that purpose : That if this disposition should be favourable , by waiting the event of the present campaign , which we all hoped would be successful , we should have reason to ...
... French court , from the agent whom we had sent to Paris for that purpose : That if this disposition should be favourable , by waiting the event of the present campaign , which we all hoped would be successful , we should have reason to ...
Strana 52
... French legation in Philadelphia , informing me , he had been instructed by his government to obtain such statistical accounts of the different states of our Union , as might be useful for their in- formation ; and addressing to me a ...
... French legation in Philadelphia , informing me , he had been instructed by his government to obtain such statistical accounts of the different states of our Union , as might be useful for their in- formation ; and addressing to me a ...
Strana 53
... French . A London bookseller , on seeing the translation , requested me to permit him to print the English original . I thought it best to do so , to let the world see that it was not really so bad as the French translation had made it ...
... French . A London bookseller , on seeing the translation , requested me to permit him to print the English original . I thought it best to do so , to let the world see that it was not really so bad as the French translation had made it ...
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Strana 6 - 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 4 - 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 9 - 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 7 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Strana 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Strana 8 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...
Strana 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Strana 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Strana 7 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...