The life of Thomas Jefferson, 112. number,1. köideNew Library Press.Net, 1858 |
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Page vi
... views on a great variety of important extra - political topics . Like his political ones , they betray vigorous thought . They are often , too , clothed in that felicitous diction which is apt to enlist the sympathy of the ear as well ...
... views on a great variety of important extra - political topics . Like his political ones , they betray vigorous thought . They are often , too , clothed in that felicitous diction which is apt to enlist the sympathy of the ear as well ...
Page viii
... if he materially changed his views - instead of attempting to convey the substance in any briefer synop- sis of our own . We have pursued the same course towards his con- PREFACE . ix spicuous adversaries , where we have given.
... if he materially changed his views - instead of attempting to convey the substance in any briefer synop- sis of our own . We have pursued the same course towards his con- PREFACE . ix spicuous adversaries , where we have given.
Page ix
... views . The leering , sneering , dodging way of making charges by implication , and insulting by innu- endo — which has been so extensively practised by early and late calumniators of Mr. Jefferson - is not to our taste . A fair ...
... views . The leering , sneering , dodging way of making charges by implication , and insulting by innu- endo — which has been so extensively practised by early and late calumniators of Mr. Jefferson - is not to our taste . A fair ...
Page xv
... Views of his Relatives- The Declaratory and Stamp Acts - Patrick Henry's Resolutions against the Stamp Act -Jefferson present at the " Bloody Debate " -His Description of it - Mr . Trist's Memoranda Death of Jefferson's Sister - Family ...
... Views of his Relatives- The Declaratory and Stamp Acts - Patrick Henry's Resolutions against the Stamp Act -Jefferson present at the " Bloody Debate " -His Description of it - Mr . Trist's Memoranda Death of Jefferson's Sister - Family ...
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... Views - J . Adams's Assertion that it repeats a Report of his Unfortunateness of the Claim - How far it was borrowed from Otis or Locke - Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence - Contemporaneous Reception of National Declaration ...
... Views - J . Adams's Assertion that it repeats a Report of his Unfortunateness of the Claim - How far it was borrowed from Otis or Locke - Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence - Contemporaneous Reception of National Declaration ...
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Page 204 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities...
Page 83 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
Page 204 - ... to suffer the civil Magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Page 161 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
Page 159 - 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.
Page 204 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere, when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to...
Page 203 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 160 - 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.
Page 77 - 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.
Page 152 - The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence.