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, 1. köideCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
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... reasons already stated , he fears that this merit will be denied to him by but too many of those whose favour he would gladly have obtained . With a yet larger class , however , and especially those who have lately come , or are yet ...
... reasons already stated , he fears that this merit will be denied to him by but too many of those whose favour he would gladly have obtained . With a yet larger class , however , and especially those who have lately come , or are yet ...
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... reason , such as appeared to him erroneous . The work has been far longer in preparation than the author expected ; but the difficulty — first of procur- ing the materials , which are often to be found only in the productions of the ...
... reason , such as appeared to him erroneous . The work has been far longer in preparation than the author expected ; but the difficulty — first of procur- ing the materials , which are often to be found only in the productions of the ...
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... reason of this thinness of population , much larger than those longer settled , and they had no definite western boundary . But as soon as the inhabitants of a fron- tier county became sufficiently numerous to require it , the THE LIFE ...
... reason of this thinness of population , much larger than those longer settled , and they had no definite western boundary . But as soon as the inhabitants of a fron- tier county became sufficiently numerous to require it , the THE LIFE ...
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... reason or afforded a pretext for Bacon to keep his force embodied , and finally to assume the attitude of open war . One of the grievances complained of was , that all the revenue was raised by a poll tax , by which the weal- thy ...
... reason or afforded a pretext for Bacon to keep his force embodied , and finally to assume the attitude of open war . One of the grievances complained of was , that all the revenue was raised by a poll tax , by which the weal- thy ...
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... reason , * When Mr. Jefferson , in a letter to Mr. Maury , fifty - seven years after- wards , reproached himself with the habit of procrastination , this com- panion of his early years must have thought him greatly altered in this ...
... reason , * When Mr. Jefferson , in a letter to Mr. Maury , fifty - seven years after- wards , reproached himself with the habit of procrastination , this com- panion of his early years must have thought him greatly altered in this ...
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Page 539 - 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 540 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 540 - 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.
Page 540 - 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.
Page 31 - 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.
Page 86 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 78 - 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.
Page 541 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Page 218 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Page 540 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [] people [who mean to be free.