Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen1F. Carr, and Company, 1820 |
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... observation of the Author , during his diplomatic residence at Paris . The narrative , with the intermingled reflections on the character and consequences of that Revolution , fill a considerable space in the Memoir , and form a very ...
... observation of the Author , during his diplomatic residence at Paris . The narrative , with the intermingled reflections on the character and consequences of that Revolution , fill a considerable space in the Memoir , and form a very ...
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... observe a bigoted intoler- ance for all religions but hers . The difficulties with our represen- tatives were of habit and despair , not of reflection and conviction . Experience soon proved that they could bring their minds to rights ...
... observe a bigoted intoler- ance for all religions but hers . The difficulties with our represen- tatives were of habit and despair , not of reflection and conviction . Experience soon proved that they could bring their minds to rights ...
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... observed Mr. Jay , speaking to R. H. Lee , and leading him by the button of his coat to me . ' I understand , sir ... observation on it was out of order , he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction , and concluded ...
... observed Mr. Jay , speaking to R. H. Lee , and leading him by the button of his coat to me . ' I understand , sir ... observation on it was out of order , he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction , and concluded ...
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... observed was wise and pro- per now , of deferring to take any capital step till the voice of the people drove us into it : That they were our power , and without them our declarations could not be carried into effect : That the people ...
... observed was wise and pro- per now , of deferring to take any capital step till the voice of the people drove us into it : That they were our power , and without them our declarations could not be carried into effect : That the people ...
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... observed that negroes are property , and as such , cannot be dis- tinguished from the lands or personalities held in those states where there are few slaves ; that the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by , he ...
... observed that negroes are property , and as such , cannot be dis- tinguished from the lands or personalities held in those states where there are few slaves ; that the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by , he ...
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Página 19 - 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 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 16 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Página 116 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Página 430 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Página 19 - 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 40 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Página 429 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance...
Página 92 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.