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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... never see the light , until all party and personal resentments were forgotten . It remains , that the public be informed of the author's means of giving an authentic narrative . He has , in the first place , received every xiv PREFACE .
... never see the light , until all party and personal resentments were forgotten . It remains , that the public be informed of the author's means of giving an authentic narrative . He has , in the first place , received every xiv PREFACE .
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... never tried it . The delay has been greatly increased in consequence of the author's having been obliged to revise most of the sheets at the distance of near three hundred miles from the press ; and as , from the same circumstance , his ...
... never tried it . The delay has been greatly increased in consequence of the author's having been obliged to revise most of the sheets at the distance of near three hundred miles from the press ; and as , from the same circumstance , his ...
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With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government ... never reduced . It did not , how- ever , prevent large importations , for we find the number to have increased in ...
With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government ... never reduced . It did not , how- ever , prevent large importations , for we find the number to have increased in ...
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... never to have been long dormant , from the year 1624 , when Virginia ceased to be a proprietary government , until the pe- riod of separation . The annals of the colony , meagre as they unfortunately are , afford abundant evidence of ...
... never to have been long dormant , from the year 1624 , when Virginia ceased to be a proprietary government , until the pe- riod of separation . The annals of the colony , meagre as they unfortunately are , afford abundant evidence of ...
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... never shall get over . This , cried I , was the last stroke Satan had in reserve for me ; he knew I cared not for any thing else he could do to me , and was determined to try this last most fatal expedient . Multis fortunæ vulneribus ...
... never shall get over . This , cried I , was the last stroke Satan had in reserve for me ; he knew I cared not for any thing else he could do to me , and was determined to try this last most fatal expedient . Multis fortunæ vulneribus ...
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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.