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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... given by the thrifty and sagacious trader ; for it afforded to him a sure pledge for the consignment of the debtor's crop , on the sales of which his fair perquisites amounted to a liberal profit , and if he was disposed to abuse his ...
... given by the thrifty and sagacious trader ; for it afforded to him a sure pledge for the consignment of the debtor's crop , on the sales of which his fair perquisites amounted to a liberal profit , and if he was disposed to abuse his ...
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... given to the more pressing duties of legislator , diplomatist , or statesman , there were few Americans in his day who could boast of equal attain- ments in science and learning . Whilst he was at college , he participated in the ...
... given to the more pressing duties of legislator , diplomatist , or statesman , there were few Americans in his day who could boast of equal attain- ments in science and learning . Whilst he was at college , he participated in the ...
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... given , not because they indicate any extraordinary talent in the writer , but because they give us some insight into his character , before it had received any modification from his commerce with the world , and make us acquainted with ...
... given , not because they indicate any extraordinary talent in the writer , but because they give us some insight into his character , before it had received any modification from his commerce with the world , and make us acquainted with ...
Strana 39
... given of my sincerity , he can be under no apprehensions of a change in my sentiments : and were I to do as my friends advise me , I would give no better security than he has at present . He is satisfied that I shall make him an offer ...
... given of my sincerity , he can be under no apprehensions of a change in my sentiments : and were I to do as my friends advise me , I would give no better security than he has at present . He is satisfied that I shall make him an offer ...
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... given of Mr. Henry's rare powers of elocution by all who ever heard him speak . The repeal of the stamp act the year after it was passed , produced a short - lived suspension of the ill feeling between Great Britain and her colonies ...
... given of Mr. Henry's rare powers of elocution by all who ever heard him speak . The repeal of the stamp act the year after it was passed , produced a short - lived suspension of the ill feeling between Great Britain and her colonies ...
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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.