The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1775G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 |
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Strana xviii
... whole country by mere recommendations ; that a dependent govern- ment is the strongest in the world , for it must accord with public opinion , and therefore meet with public support ; that constitutions and laws are but ink and paper ...
... whole country by mere recommendations ; that a dependent govern- ment is the strongest in the world , for it must accord with public opinion , and therefore meet with public support ; that constitutions and laws are but ink and paper ...
Strana 12
... whole colony was like a shock of electricity , arousing every man & placing him erect & solidly on his centre . They chose universally delegates for the convention . Being elected one for my own county I prepared a draught of ...
... whole colony was like a shock of electricity , arousing every man & placing him erect & solidly on his centre . They chose universally delegates for the convention . Being elected one for my own county I prepared a draught of ...
Strana 19
... whole , into which they immediately resolved themselves , and passed that day & Monday the 10th in debating on the subject . It was argued by Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge , Dickinson and others That tho ' they were ...
... whole , into which they immediately resolved themselves , and passed that day & Monday the 10th in debating on the subject . It was argued by Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge , Dickinson and others That tho ' they were ...
Strana 24
... the declaration was to consist , and minutes made of them . The com- mittee then appointed Mr. Jefferson and me to draw them up in form , and house resolved itself into a commee of the whole & 24 [ 1776 THE WRITINGS OF.
... the declaration was to consist , and minutes made of them . The com- mittee then appointed Mr. Jefferson and me to draw them up in form , and house resolved itself into a commee of the whole & 24 [ 1776 THE WRITINGS OF.
Strana 25
Thomas Jefferson Paul Leicester Ford. house resolved itself into a commee of the whole & resumed the consideration of the original motion made by the delegates of Virginia , which being again debated through the day , was carried clothe ...
Thomas Jefferson Paul Leicester Ford. house resolved itself into a commee of the whole & resumed the consideration of the original motion made by the delegates of Virginia , which being again debated through the day , was carried clothe ...
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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...