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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... tion , he read much and improved himself , insomuch that he was chosen , with Joshua Fry , professor of Mathematics_in William and Mary college , to continue the boundary line be- tween Virginia and North Carolina , which had been begun ...
... tion , he read much and improved himself , insomuch that he was chosen , with Joshua Fry , professor of Mathematics_in William and Mary college , to continue the boundary line be- tween Virginia and North Carolina , which had been begun ...
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... tion against the use of any merchandise imported from Great Britain , signed and recommended them to the people , repaired to our several counties , and were re - elected without any other exception than of the very few who had declined ...
... tion against the use of any merchandise imported from Great Britain , signed and recommended them to the people , repaired to our several counties , and were re - elected without any other exception than of the very few who had declined ...
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... tion . Being elected one for my own county , I prepared a draught of instructions to be given to the delegates whom we should send to the Congress , which I meant to propose at our meeting . In this I took the ground that , from the ...
... tion . Being elected one for my own county , I prepared a draught of instructions to be given to the delegates whom we should send to the Congress , which I meant to propose at our meeting . In this I took the ground that , from the ...
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... tion of New York was now sitting , and those of the Jerseys and Delaware counties would meet on the Monday following ; and it was probable these bodies would take up the question of Inde- pendence , and would declare to their delegates ...
... tion of New York was now sitting , and those of the Jerseys and Delaware counties would meet on the Monday following ; and it was probable these bodies would take up the question of Inde- pendence , and would declare to their delegates ...
Strana 15
... tion of Independence , desired me to do it . It was accordingly done , and being approved by them , I reported it to the House on Friday , the 28th of June , when it was read and ordered to lie on the table . On Monday , the 1st of July ...
... tion of Independence , desired me to do it . It was accordingly done , and being approved by them , I reported it to the House on Friday , the 28th of June , when it was read and ordered to lie on the table . On Monday , the 1st of July ...
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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...