Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Svazek 1F. Carr, and Company, 1820 |
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... house of legislature , held their places at will , and were in most humble obedience to that will : the Go- vernor too , who had a negative on our laws , held by the same te- nure , and with still greater devotedness to it : and , last ...
... house of legislature , held their places at will , and were in most humble obedience to that will : the Go- vernor too , who had a negative on our laws , held by the same te- nure , and with still greater devotedness to it : and , last ...
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... House of Burgesses , were agreed to with little oppo- sition , and a spirit manifestly displayed itself of considering the cause of Massachusetts as a common one . The Governor dissolv- ed us but we met the next day in the Apollo * of ...
... House of Burgesses , were agreed to with little oppo- sition , and a spirit manifestly displayed itself of considering the cause of Massachusetts as a common one . The Governor dissolv- ed us but we met the next day in the Apollo * of ...
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... House , on these subjects , being no longer left to the old members , Mr. Henry , R. H. Lee , Fr. L. Lee , three or four other members , whom I do not recol- lect , and myself , agreeing that we must boldly take an unequivocal stand in ...
... House , on these subjects , being no longer left to the old members , Mr. Henry , R. H. Lee , Fr. L. Lee , three or four other members , whom I do not recol- lect , and myself , agreeing that we must boldly take an unequivocal stand in ...
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... Houses of Parliament , but suppressed in embryo by the hasty step of events , which warned them to be a little cautious . Mon- tague , agent of the House of Burgesses in England , made extracts from the bill , copied the names , and ...
... Houses of Parliament , but suppressed in embryo by the hasty step of events , which warned them to be a little cautious . Mon- tague , agent of the House of Burgesses in England , made extracts from the bill , copied the names , and ...
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... House of Burgesses , might be called off , they added me , in that event , to the delegation . Mr. Randolph was according to expectation obliged to leave the chair of Congress , to attend the General Assembly summoned by Lord Dunmore ...
... House of Burgesses , might be called off , they added me , in that event , to the delegation . Mr. Randolph was according to expectation obliged to leave the chair of Congress , to attend the General Assembly summoned by Lord Dunmore ...
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Strana 19 - 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 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 16 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Strana 116 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Strana 430 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Strana 19 - 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 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. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Strana 429 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance...
Strana 92 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.