Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private CorrespondenceA. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 страници |
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... attention among his cotempo- raries , and were regarded as prophetic of his destiny . They are well remembered to this day , by the aged inhabitants of Virginia , and associated with the warmest recollections of him , whose pres- ence ...
... attention among his cotempo- raries , and were regarded as prophetic of his destiny . They are well remembered to this day , by the aged inhabitants of Virginia , and associated with the warmest recollections of him , whose pres- ence ...
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... attention of its functionaries to more imperious concerns . Patrick Henry , who was seven years older than Mr. Jefferson , and three or four ahead of him in public life , had hitherto been the master - spirit of the Revolution at the ...
... attention of its functionaries to more imperious concerns . Patrick Henry , who was seven years older than Mr. Jefferson , and three or four ahead of him in public life , had hitherto been the master - spirit of the Revolution at the ...
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... attention , even after so long an interval of silence . He was not in public life at the time this proceeding was instituted , and consequently had not the power to raise his voice against it ; but such was his strong sense of political ...
... attention , even after so long an interval of silence . He was not in public life at the time this proceeding was instituted , and consequently had not the power to raise his voice against it ; but such was his strong sense of political ...
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... attention . " The proposition met an enthusiastic acceptance with his colleagues ; and he was requested to prepare the necessary instrument , to be presented to the House . The reader will be curious to learn how Mr. Jefferson proceeded ...
... attention . " The proposition met an enthusiastic acceptance with his colleagues ; and he was requested to prepare the necessary instrument , to be presented to the House . The reader will be curious to learn how Mr. Jefferson proceeded ...
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... attention to its ordinary work- ings , might have forseen that the spirits of the people here were in a state , in which they were more likely to be provoked , than fright- ened , by haughty deportment . And to fill up the measure of ...
... attention to its ordinary work- ings , might have forseen that the spirits of the people here were in a state , in which they were more likely to be provoked , than fright- ened , by haughty deportment . And to fill up the measure of ...
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Страница 417 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Страница 140 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Страница 38 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Страница 168 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Страница 163 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; 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...
Страница 117 - 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.
Страница 474 - I believe this on the contrary the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Страница 418 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Страница 163 - ... established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Страница 394 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.