Thomas JeffersonC. Scribner's Sons, 1918 - Počet stran: 319 Focus is on TJ's political career; tone is laudatory. -- Frank Shuffelton. |
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... 1688. In March , 1764 , Grenville began to put into operation a plan for the taxation of the American colonies , with the threefold object of increasing the British revenue to meet the large debt contracted in the French 10 THOMAS ...
... 1688. In March , 1764 , Grenville began to put into operation a plan for the taxation of the American colonies , with the threefold object of increasing the British revenue to meet the large debt contracted in the French 10 THOMAS ...
Strana 11
... British Parliament , and of raising money to defray the expenses of " defending , protecting , and securing the King's dominion in America , " so happily enlarged " by the expulsion of the French from the St. Lawrence and Mississippi ...
... British Parliament , and of raising money to defray the expenses of " defending , protecting , and securing the King's dominion in America , " so happily enlarged " by the expulsion of the French from the St. Lawrence and Mississippi ...
Strana 12
... British Parliament to usurp this right tended to the destruction of liber- ties both here and in England . He supported his resolutions in a fiery speech which drew cries of " Treason ! " from the consternated aristocrats . And he ...
... British Parliament to usurp this right tended to the destruction of liber- ties both here and in England . He supported his resolutions in a fiery speech which drew cries of " Treason ! " from the consternated aristocrats . And he ...
Strana 13
... British Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 , but , under the spur of Charles Townshend's mocking provocation , had returned to the charge the next year and imposed a fresh set of duties on colonial imports , together with a ...
... British Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 , but , under the spur of Charles Townshend's mocking provocation , had returned to the charge the next year and imposed a fresh set of duties on colonial imports , together with a ...
Strana 16
... British schooner Gaspée , of eight guns , while chasing smugglers in Narragansett Bay , had run aground on a mud - bank about seven miles from Providence , on the afternoon of June 9 , 1772. Late that night the stranded schooner was ...
... British schooner Gaspée , of eight guns , while chasing smugglers in Narragansett Bay , had run aground on a mud - bank about seven miles from Providence , on the afternoon of June 9 , 1772. Late that night the stranded schooner was ...
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Strana 35 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Strana 195 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Strana 262 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Strana 35 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Strana 258 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Strana 261 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Strana 36 - Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Strana 22 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Strana 40 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.