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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Strana 18
... European ports ; and at the same time he could tempt the Americans to take the tea at the good bargain offered and , by paying the duty , indorse the principle , so dear to his heart , of Parliament's right to tax them.1 1 Figures from ...
... European ports ; and at the same time he could tempt the Americans to take the tea at the good bargain offered and , by paying the duty , indorse the principle , so dear to his heart , of Parliament's right to tax them.1 1 Figures from ...
Strana 35
... Europe . " And he adjures the ministry not " to trifle with accom- modation till it shall be out of their power forever to accommodate . " There is little probability that John Randolph urged these " instructions " on the British ...
... Europe . " And he adjures the ministry not " to trifle with accom- modation till it shall be out of their power forever to accommodate . " There is little probability that John Randolph urged these " instructions " on the British ...
Strana 37
... Europe for aid , and recommended to the patriots of New Hamp- shire , South Carolina , and Virginia to follow the lead of Massachusetts in establishing such forms of 1 When Benjamin Franklin returned to America in March , 1775 , after ...
... Europe for aid , and recommended to the patriots of New Hamp- shire , South Carolina , and Virginia to follow the lead of Massachusetts in establishing such forms of 1 When Benjamin Franklin returned to America in March , 1775 , after ...
Strana 48
... European nations . But when the cause which we submitted to a " candid world " took the form of independence help came . As soon as Louis XVI's government heard that the American colonies had declared themselves free it proposed that ...
... European nations . But when the cause which we submitted to a " candid world " took the form of independence help came . As soon as Louis XVI's government heard that the American colonies had declared themselves free it proposed that ...
Strana 57
... European countries . Jeffer- son wanted very much to go . The attractions of the " capital city of the world , " its music , art , letters , and science , appealed strongly to the refined tastes and insatiable mental curiosity of the ...
... European countries . Jeffer- son wanted very much to go . The attractions of the " capital city of the world , " its music , art , letters , and science , appealed strongly to the refined tastes and insatiable mental curiosity of the ...
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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.