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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Strana xviii
... supposed predilections for Mo- narchy - influence of the Treasury Department . Commissioners from Spain . Discussion in the Cabinet . Disagreement as to Foreign Con- nexions . Relations with France . Party Dissentions . References to ...
... supposed predilections for Mo- narchy - influence of the Treasury Department . Commissioners from Spain . Discussion in the Cabinet . Disagreement as to Foreign Con- nexions . Relations with France . Party Dissentions . References to ...
Strana 24
... supposed to be repealed was still in force . The House of Burgesses conceiving that the power now asserted , might , by suspending the exercise of the royal negative on the colonial laws , be used to revive laws that had been long ...
... supposed to be repealed was still in force . The House of Burgesses conceiving that the power now asserted , might , by suspending the exercise of the royal negative on the colonial laws , be used to revive laws that had been long ...
Strana 41
... supposed to have acquired both his admirable manners , which reached the utmost extreme of ease that is consistent with dignity or refinement , and that taste for the elegancies of life with which he always embellished the plainness of ...
... supposed to have acquired both his admirable manners , which reached the utmost extreme of ease that is consistent with dignity or refinement , and that taste for the elegancies of life with which he always embellished the plainness of ...
Strana 69
... supposed , less with an expectation of restoring harmony , than of uniting the people of England , and thus giving strength to the ministry . But as , in the event of their partial success in America , they would pro- duce a division ...
... supposed , less with an expectation of restoring harmony , than of uniting the people of England , and thus giving strength to the ministry . But as , in the event of their partial success in America , they would pro- duce a division ...
Strana 71
... supposed , of per- petrating still more serious mischief . On the same day , it being reported that Captain Collins , of the Magdalen , was then on his march to the city with a hundred men , the people imme- diately assembled under arms ...
... supposed , of per- petrating still more serious mischief . On the same day , it being reported that Captain Collins , of the Magdalen , was then on his march to the city with a hundred men , the people imme- diately assembled under arms ...
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afterwards American appointed articles of confederation Assembly authority bill Britain British character Citizen Genet citizens civil Colonel colonies commerce committee Congress considered constitution Convention course court creditors Dabney Carr danger debt declare duty effect enemies England executive favour federal feelings foreign France French French revolution friends Genet give Gouverneur Morris Governor Hamilton honour House House of Burgesses Indians interest Jefferson lands legislative legislature letter liberty Lord Dunmore Madison measures ment mind minister Monticello nation neutrality never object occasion opinion paper Paris party peace persons Peyton Randolph political popular port present president principles proposed proposition purpose question received regarded remarks republican resolution Richard Henry Lee says seems sentiments slaves society South Carolina spirit supposed thing Thomas Jefferson thought tion tobacco trade treasury treaty United vessels views Virginia vote Washington whole Williamsburg wish
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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.