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 - 4 pages |
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... Britain , unless she could first be prepared for it . I am afraid it will make my chance of succeeding considerably worse . But the event at last must be this , that if she consents , I shall be happy ; if she does not , I must ...
... Britain , unless she could first be prepared for it . I am afraid it will make my chance of succeeding considerably worse . But the event at last must be this , that if she consents , I shall be happy ; if she does not , I must ...
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... Britain , if you can lend them to me , till I can provide myself with a copy , it will infinitely oblige me . Adieu , dear Page , Devilsburg , April 9th , 1764 . Dear Page , This letter will be conveyed to you by the assistance of our ...
... Britain , if you can lend them to me , till I can provide myself with a copy , it will infinitely oblige me . Adieu , dear Page , Devilsburg , April 9th , 1764 . Dear Page , This letter will be conveyed to you by the assistance of our ...
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... tween Great Britain and colonies had commenced , and the sub- ject of their respective rights had become a theme of universal interest and discussion in America . He would naturally have 42 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... tween Great Britain and colonies had commenced , and the sub- ject of their respective rights had become a theme of universal interest and discussion in America . He would naturally have 42 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... Britain : and above all , eloquence , whose power is never so great as when it is exerted in the cause of patriotism , lent its magical influence , to add the fervours of passion to the convictions of the understanding . It was during ...
... Britain : and above all , eloquence , whose power is never so great as when it is exerted in the cause of patriotism , lent its magical influence , to add the fervours of passion to the convictions of the understanding . It was during ...
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... Britain consented to relinquish a paltry tax , while she asserted unlimited powers of legislation , he should witness the ratification of a treaty by which she acknowledged her late suppliant co- lonies to be sovereign states ; that ...
... Britain consented to relinquish a paltry tax , while she asserted unlimited powers of legislation , he should witness the ratification of a treaty by which she acknowledged her late suppliant co- lonies to be sovereign states ; that ...
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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.