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 6
... considered it the most manly thing to do to imitate the governor in his devotion to the gaming- table . Many years later , when he was President of the United States , Jefferson wrote a letter to his grandson , who was away from home at ...
... considered it the most manly thing to do to imitate the governor in his devotion to the gaming- table . Many years later , when he was President of the United States , Jefferson wrote a letter to his grandson , who was away from home at ...
Strana 14
... considered " sufficiently amplified " ( which probably meant " sufficiently vague " ) by the more conservative members , and Colonel Nicholas pre- pared one in its place . Jefferson was somewhat chagrined by the incident . " Being a ...
... considered " sufficiently amplified " ( which probably meant " sufficiently vague " ) by the more conservative members , and Colonel Nicholas pre- pared one in its place . Jefferson was somewhat chagrined by the incident . " Being a ...
Strana 6
... considered it the most manly thing to do to imitate the governor in his devotion to the gaming- table . Many years later , when he was President of the United States , Jefferson wrote a letter to his grandson , who was away from home at ...
... considered it the most manly thing to do to imitate the governor in his devotion to the gaming- table . Many years later , when he was President of the United States , Jefferson wrote a letter to his grandson , who was away from home at ...
Strana 14
... considered " sufficiently amplified " ( which probably meant " sufficiently vague " ) by the more conservative members , and Colonel Nicholas pre- pared one in its place . Jefferson was somewhat chagrined by the incident . " Being a ...
... considered " sufficiently amplified " ( which probably meant " sufficiently vague " ) by the more conservative members , and Colonel Nicholas pre- pared one in its place . Jefferson was somewhat chagrined by the incident . " Being a ...
Strana 56
... considered unfit to be the custodian of his own children . " I want to breathe again your free air , " wrote young James Madison to a northern friend after he had returned to Virginia from Princeton College . He cried out against " the ...
... considered unfit to be the custodian of his own children . " I want to breathe again your free air , " wrote young James Madison to a northern friend after he had returned to Virginia from Princeton College . He cried out against " 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.