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 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
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... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . 26 CHAPTER III . 1772-1775 . His Marriage . Committees of Correspondence . Boston Port Bill . Members of Assembly enter into articles of ...
... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . 26 CHAPTER III . 1772-1775 . His Marriage . Committees of Correspondence . Boston Port Bill . Members of Assembly enter into articles of ...
Strana xix
... Britain- ratified by the Senate - made public by one of the Senators - violent opposition to it.-Mr. Jefferson's views of it - its provisions - its want of reciprocity detailed and explained . 486 CHAPTER XXI . 1796 . The British Treaty ...
... Britain- ratified by the Senate - made public by one of the Senators - violent opposition to it.-Mr. Jefferson's views of it - its provisions - its want of reciprocity detailed and explained . 486 CHAPTER XXI . 1796 . The British Treaty ...
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... Britain , which first gave them a place among nations , as the most important era in their common history . They will naturally regard with veneration and interest all which relates to that great drama , and more especially the fortunes ...
... Britain , which first gave them a place among nations , as the most important era in their common history . They will naturally regard with veneration and interest all which relates to that great drama , and more especially the fortunes ...
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... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . THOMAS JEFFERSON was born on the 2nd day of April , 1743 , at a place called Shadwell , in what is now the county of Albe- . marle , but ...
... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . THOMAS JEFFERSON was born on the 2nd day of April , 1743 , at a place called Shadwell , in what is now the county of Albe- . marle , but ...
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... that paragraph in my letter wherein I mentioned to you my resolution of going to Britain . And to begin an affair of that kind now , and carry it on so long a time in form , is by no means a 34 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... that paragraph in my letter wherein I mentioned to you my resolution of going to Britain . And to begin an affair of that kind now , and carry it on so long a time in form , is by no means a 34 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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Strana 539 - 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 540 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Strana 540 - 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.
Strana 540 - 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 31 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Strana 86 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Strana 78 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Strana 541 - 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...
Strana 218 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Strana 540 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [] people [who mean to be free.