The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1775G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 |
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... . Capture of store ship - News of Arnold and Montgomery- Promotions . Report on Congress Committee , December 15th • 494 495 496 INTRODUCTION . The political theories and usages originated or adopted xii CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
... . Capture of store ship - News of Arnold and Montgomery- Promotions . Report on Congress Committee , December 15th • 494 495 496 INTRODUCTION . The political theories and usages originated or adopted xii CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
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Thomas Jefferson Paul Leicester Ford. INTRODUCTION . The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such per- sistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a ...
Thomas Jefferson Paul Leicester Ford. INTRODUCTION . The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such per- sistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a ...
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... adoption of the self - constituted convention which met in August , 1774 , and the difference in tone almost . tells the history of those intervening years . Then , the interests of England and America were " insepa- rably the same ...
... adoption of the self - constituted convention which met in August , 1774 , and the difference in tone almost . tells the history of those intervening years . Then , the interests of England and America were " insepa- rably the same ...
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... great problem here was a rebuilding of civil government destroyed by the revolution . A consti- tution had been adopted , and under this a legislature and executive had been elected , but courts and laws xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... great problem here was a rebuilding of civil government destroyed by the revolution . A consti- tution had been adopted , and under this a legislature and executive had been elected , but courts and laws xxvi INTRODUCTION .
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... adopted certain features from it , but neglected the larger part . In addition to this great work , he drafted , during his service in this body , many bills of immediate or temporary moment . This was done in a period almost without ...
... adopted certain features from it , but neglected the larger part . In addition to this great work , he drafted , during his service in this body , many bills of immediate or temporary moment . This was done in a period almost without ...
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Strana 345 - 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 368 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Strana 41 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Strana 442 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa.
Strana 36 - 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 36 - 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 34 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
Strana 449 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 36 - 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 37 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...