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, Volumen1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
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... carrying those principles into effect , and lastly , the kindness with which you have answered my inquiries and guided my researches , make it peculiarly proper that I should address to you the following pages . In sub- mitting to you ...
... carrying those principles into effect , and lastly , the kindness with which you have answered my inquiries and guided my researches , make it peculiarly proper that I should address to you the following pages . In sub- mitting to you ...
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... carry on a direct intercourse with foreign countries from their separate dwellings . Thus commerce , by the very ... carrying on their foreign commerce to more advan- tage : here was no court which , by its 16 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... carry on a direct intercourse with foreign countries from their separate dwellings . Thus commerce , by the very ... carrying on their foreign commerce to more advan- tage : here was no court which , by its 16 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... carried on the whole commerce of the country . Nor was this system of credit more eagerly sought by the improvident planter than it was given by the thrifty and sagacious trader ; for it afforded to him a sure pledge for the consignment ...
... carried on the whole commerce of the country . Nor was this system of credit more eagerly sought by the improvident planter than it was given by the thrifty and sagacious trader ; for it afforded to him a sure pledge for the consignment ...
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... a confirmation of this view ; and many living illustra- tions will readily present themselves to all who have a personal know- ledge of the southern states . the one and the vices of the other are carried 18 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... a confirmation of this view ; and many living illustra- tions will readily present themselves to all who have a personal know- ledge of the southern states . the one and the vices of the other are carried 18 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... carried to the greater extreme by the self - same process of habitual exercise . The church of England was the established religion of Virgi- nia . The whole colony was divided into parishes - commonly about two in a county - in each of ...
... carried to the greater extreme by the self - same process of habitual exercise . The church of England was the established religion of Virgi- nia . The whole colony was divided into parishes - commonly about two in a county - in each of ...
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Página 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.
Página 540 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 218 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Página 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.