The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 |
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... immediately to Philadelphia , and conveyed to Congress the first notice they had of it . It was entirely ap- proved there . I took my seat with them on the 21st of June . On the 24th , a committee which had been appointed to prepare a ...
... immediately to Philadelphia , and conveyed to Congress the first notice they had of it . It was entirely ap- proved there . I took my seat with them on the 21st of June . On the 24th , a committee which had been appointed to prepare a ...
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... immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers , and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together . The House being obliged to attend at that time to some other business , the proposition was ...
... immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers , and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together . The House being obliged to attend at that time to some other business , the proposition was ...
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... immediately to Philadelphia , to take the orders of Congress , and was excused by them from fur- ther proceeding . I , therefore , returned home , where I arrived on the 15th of May , 1783 . On the 6th of the following month , I was ...
... immediately to Philadelphia , to take the orders of Congress , and was excused by them from fur- ther proceeding . I , therefore , returned home , where I arrived on the 15th of May , 1783 . On the 6th of the following month , I was ...
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... the 6th . I called immediately on Dr. Franklin , at Passy , communicated to him our charge , and we wrote to Mr. Adams , then at the Hague , to join us at Paris . Before I had left America , that is to say 60 JEFFERSON'S WORKS .
... the 6th . I called immediately on Dr. Franklin , at Passy , communicated to him our charge , and we wrote to Mr. Adams , then at the Hague , to join us at Paris . Before I had left America , that is to say 60 JEFFERSON'S WORKS .
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... immediately , as he thought he discovered there some symptoms of better disposition towards us . Colonel Smith , his secretary of legation , was the bearer of his urgencies for my immediate attendance . I , accordingly , left Paris on ...
... immediately , as he thought he discovered there some symptoms of better disposition towards us . Colonel Smith , his secretary of legation , was the bearer of his urgencies for my immediate attendance . I , accordingly , left Paris on ...
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Página 21 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 23 - 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 183 - 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 27 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 24 - ... he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 45 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 19 - A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that...
Página 25 - 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, and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted beticeen us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and finally, we do assert...
Página 142 - Still less let it be proposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 22 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies [and ships of war] without the consent of our legislatures.