The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Svazek 1C. Knight, 1837 - Počet stran: 4 |
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Strana 47
... express their satisfaction in emphatic and unqualified terms . But in the interval of an adjournment , their minds seem to have undergone a change , and when they again met , they expressed their dissatisfaction in the form of a ...
... express their satisfaction in emphatic and unqualified terms . But in the interval of an adjournment , their minds seem to have undergone a change , and when they again met , they expressed their dissatisfaction in the form of a ...
Strana 57
... express authority of law , and by virtue of the inherent rights of the people . Mr. Jefferson , who was one of the deputies of Albemarle , had previously prepared instructions , which he meant to propose , for the delegates whom the ...
... express authority of law , and by virtue of the inherent rights of the people . Mr. Jefferson , who was one of the deputies of Albemarle , had previously prepared instructions , which he meant to propose , for the delegates whom the ...
Strana 61
... names were about twenty , but he recollected only those of Hancock , the two Adamses , Peyton Randolph , Patrick Henry , and his own . proceed to express their views and sentiments with great directness THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON , 61.
... names were about twenty , but he recollected only those of Hancock , the two Adamses , Peyton Randolph , Patrick Henry , and his own . proceed to express their views and sentiments with great directness THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON , 61.
Strana 62
... express their views and sentiments with great directness and simplicity . 66 They begin with averring their allegiance to George the Third , their lawful and rightful sovereign , " and that they were determined , with their " lives and ...
... express their views and sentiments with great directness and simplicity . 66 They begin with averring their allegiance to George the Third , their lawful and rightful sovereign , " and that they were determined , with their " lives and ...
Strana 65
... express their sympathy for " the sufferings of their country- men in Massachusetts - Bay ; " and their wishes that contri- butions for the people of Boston should be continued throughout the colonies . All the proceedings of this ...
... express their sympathy for " the sufferings of their country- men in Massachusetts - Bay ; " and their wishes that contri- butions for the people of Boston should be continued throughout the colonies . All the proceedings of this ...
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Strana 241 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Strana 611 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 611 - 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 609 - 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 32 - 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 125 - 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 610 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Strana 87 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Strana 259 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.