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, Volumen1C. Knight, 1837 - 4 páginas |
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... mind , that I shall think of her too often , I fear , for my peace of mind ; and too often , I am sure , to get through old Coke this winter ; for God knows I have not seen him since I packed him up in my trunk in Williams- burg . Well ...
... mind , that I shall think of her too often , I fear , for my peace of mind ; and too often , I am sure , to get through old Coke this winter ; for God knows I have not seen him since I packed him up in my trunk in Williams- burg . Well ...
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... mind has been so taken up with thinking of my ac- quaintances , that , till this moment , I almost imagined myself in Williamsburg , talking to you in our old unreserved way ; and never observed , till I turned over the leaf THE LIFE OF ...
... mind has been so taken up with thinking of my ac- quaintances , that , till this moment , I almost imagined myself in Williamsburg , talking to you in our old unreserved way ; and never observed , till I turned over the leaf THE LIFE OF ...
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... minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives . The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will , to consider that ...
... minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives . The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will , to consider that ...
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... mind such thoughts as occurred to me , in as moving lan- guage as I knew how , and expected to have performed in a tolerably creditable manner . But , good God ! when I had an opportunity of venting them , a few broken sentences ...
... mind such thoughts as occurred to me , in as moving lan- guage as I knew how , and expected to have performed in a tolerably creditable manner . But , good God ! when I had an opportunity of venting them , a few broken sentences ...
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... mind of me ; tell him I think as I always did . I have sent my horses up the country , so that it is out of my power to take even an airing on horseback at any time . My paper holds out no longer , so Must bid you adieu . Devilsburg ...
... mind of me ; tell him I think as I always did . I have sent my horses up the country , so that it is out of my power to take even an airing on horseback at any time . My paper holds out no longer , so Must bid you adieu . Devilsburg ...
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Página 241 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Página 611 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 611 - 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 609 - 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 32 - 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 125 - 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 610 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 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.
Página 87 - 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 259 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.