The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Svazek 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - Počet stran: 4 |
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... nation - disapproved it , the French government no longer concealed its dissatisfaction . Whilst one of the grounds ... nations ; for when we consider the bitter animosity which was felt by both nations , it was scarcely practicable how ...
... nation - disapproved it , the French government no longer concealed its dissatisfaction . Whilst one of the grounds ... nations ; for when we consider the bitter animosity which was felt by both nations , it was scarcely practicable how ...
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... nation , as well as from the almost equal vote for the first , had on his happy temper , the effect of putting him in a good humour with all the world . It was in this spirit of be- nignity and good feeling that he wrote the letter to ...
... nation , as well as from the almost equal vote for the first , had on his happy temper , the effect of putting him in a good humour with all the world . It was in this spirit of be- nignity and good feeling that he wrote the letter to ...
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... nations , descended from the same stock , having the same language , re- ligion and laws , and not alien in interest ... nation ; and the known partiality which one party felt for England , and the other for France , and the correspon ...
... nations , descended from the same stock , having the same language , re- ligion and laws , and not alien in interest ... nation ; and the known partiality which one party felt for England , and the other for France , and the correspon ...
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... nation , who were the object of them , had excited reaction from them , and this reaction has , on the minds of our citizens , an ef- fect which supplies that of the Washington popularity . " He speaks of the future in a tone of ...
... nation , who were the object of them , had excited reaction from them , and this reaction has , on the minds of our citizens , an ef- fect which supplies that of the Washington popularity . " He speaks of the future in a tone of ...
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... nation stand surety for their justice , and their own loss to follow injury to us , as effect follows its cause . As ... nations in Europe , and their influence here prevailed , each was led to take an interest in French or English ...
... nation stand surety for their justice , and their own loss to follow injury to us , as effect follows its cause . As ... nations in Europe , and their influence here prevailed , each was led to take an interest in French or English ...
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Strana 88 - civil over the military authority: economy in the public expense, that labour may be lightly burthened: the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith: encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce, as its handmaid: the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason: freedom of religion, freedom of
Strana 87 - and confidence from our fellow citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions, and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practised in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an over-ruling providence, which by all its
Strana 86 - by some and less by others, and should divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion, is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names, brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans —all federalists.* If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them
Strana 422 - people; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and selfgoverning association, under the control of no power, other than that of our God, and the general government of Congress: to the maintenance of which independence, we solemnly pledge to each other, our mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honour.
Strana 34 - stated that as fresh instructions had been sent to this gentleman, the negotiation might now be considered to be at an end; and concluded with this declaration, "I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honoured, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation,
Strana 349 - The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure
Strana 354 - was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed, refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with
Strana 395 - belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading; this they would say of
Strana 523 - one or more of these copies be on the paper of the birch, as less liable to injury from damp than common paper. The commerce which may be carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue, renders a knowledge of those people important. You will therefore endeavour to make yourself acquainted, as
Strana 375 - excluded from the ocean, and have thus learnt that to be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them for ourselves. "We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist," and the question is narrowed down to