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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... regarded as if they had been deliberately written by him for the press ; and the ebullitions of feeling , uttered when the fever of party excitement was at its height , and when he was goaded by every species of provocation , have been ...
... regarded as if they had been deliberately written by him for the press ; and the ebullitions of feeling , uttered when the fever of party excitement was at its height , and when he was goaded by every species of provocation , have been ...
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... regarded as real estate for the purpose of being annexed to the land , and of transmitting an undivided inheritance to the heir : and lastly , in 1705 , a law was passed to take away from the courts the power of defeating entails , as ...
... regarded as real estate for the purpose of being annexed to the land , and of transmitting an undivided inheritance to the heir : and lastly , in 1705 , a law was passed to take away from the courts the power of defeating entails , as ...
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... regarded by the colonists , if oppressive , as a proof of their danger , and if conciliatory , as an admission of their strength . VOL . I. - 4 26 CHAPTER II . Birth and parentage of Thomas Jefferson THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON . 25.
... regarded by the colonists , if oppressive , as a proof of their danger , and if conciliatory , as an admission of their strength . VOL . I. - 4 26 CHAPTER II . Birth and parentage of Thomas Jefferson THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON . 25.
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... regarded as the representa- tives of royalty , affected a good deal of state , and none more than those of Virginia , where , in keeping with these pretensions , their mansion at the seat of government was called " the pa- lace . " At ...
... regarded as the representa- tives of royalty , affected a good deal of state , and none more than those of Virginia , where , in keeping with these pretensions , their mansion at the seat of government was called " the pa- lace . " At ...
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... regarded as improprieties of dress or manners in others , was forgiven in him as a sort of idiosyncrasy , which he could not help , and of which he was not even conscious . So young a man as Mr. Jefferson could not but be greatly ...
... regarded as improprieties of dress or manners in others , was forgiven in him as a sort of idiosyncrasy , which he could not help , and of which he was not even conscious . So young a man as Mr. Jefferson could not but be greatly ...
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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.