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 17
... respect to the opinions of mankind re- quires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . We hold these truths to be self evident : that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their creator ...
... respect to the opinions of mankind re- quires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . We hold these truths to be self evident : that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their creator ...
Strana 28
... respect colonies . He distinguished between an incor- porating and a federal union . The union of England was an incorporating one ; yet Scotland had suffered by that union ; for that its inhabitants were drawn from it by the hopes of ...
... respect colonies . He distinguished between an incor- porating and a federal union . The union of England was an incorporating one ; yet Scotland had suffered by that union ; for that its inhabitants were drawn from it by the hopes of ...
Strana 37
... respect to the first , I proposed to abolish the law of primogeni- ture , and to make real estate descendible in parcenary to the next of kin , as personal property is , by the statute of distri- bution . Mr. Pendleton wished to ...
... respect to the first , I proposed to abolish the law of primogeni- ture , and to make real estate descendible in parcenary to the next of kin , as personal property is , by the statute of distri- bution . Mr. Pendleton wished to ...
Strana 39
... respect , as , instead of reforming , plunged them into the most desperate and hardened depravity of morals and character . To pursue the subject of this law . I was written to in 1785 ( being then in Paris ) by Directors appointed to ...
... respect , as , instead of reforming , plunged them into the most desperate and hardened depravity of morals and character . To pursue the subject of this law . I was written to in 1785 ( being then in Paris ) by Directors appointed to ...
Strana 40
... respect to the plan of a Prison , requested at the same time , I had heard of a benevolent society , in England , which had been indulged by the government , in an experiment of the effect of labour , in solitary confinement , on some ...
... respect to the plan of a Prison , requested at the same time , I had heard of a benevolent society , in England , which had been indulged by the government , in an experiment of the effect of labour , in solitary confinement , on some ...
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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...