The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1775G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 |
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... give greater em- phasis to our proposition , we agreed to wait the next morning on Mr. Nicholas , whose grave & religious character was more in unison with the tone of our resolution and to solicit him to move it . We accord- ingly went ...
... give greater em- phasis to our proposition , we agreed to wait the next morning on Mr. Nicholas , whose grave & religious character was more in unison with the tone of our resolution and to solicit him to move it . We accord- ingly went ...
Strana 20
... give such consent : That if the delegates of any particular colony had no power to declare such colony independant , certain they were the others could not declare it for them ; the colonies being as yet perfectly independant of each ...
... give such consent : That if the delegates of any particular colony had no power to declare such colony independant , certain they were the others could not declare it for them ; the colonies being as yet perfectly independant of each ...
Strana 46
... give preponderance to any scale they please . The voting by the num- ber of free inhabitants will have one excellent effect , that of in- ducing the colonies to discourage slavery & to encourage the increase of their free inhabitants ...
... give preponderance to any scale they please . The voting by the num- ber of free inhabitants will have one excellent effect , that of in- ducing the colonies to discourage slavery & to encourage the increase of their free inhabitants ...
Strana 47
... give them an equal right with forty thousand . This must be the effect of magic , not of reason . As to those matters which are referred to Congress , we are not so many states , we are one large state . We lay aside our individuality ...
... give them an equal right with forty thousand . This must be the effect of magic , not of reason . As to those matters which are referred to Congress , we are not so many states , we are one large state . We lay aside our individuality ...
Strana 51
... give me a jury " juries are rarely , I might say perhaps never seen in that court , but when called for by the Chancellor of his own accord . The first establishment in Virginia which became permanent was made in 1607. I have found no ...
... give me a jury " juries are rarely , I might say perhaps never seen in that court , but when called for by the Chancellor of his own accord . The first establishment in Virginia which became permanent was made in 1607. I have found no ...
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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...