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, Том 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
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... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . 26 CHAPTER III . 1772-1775 . His Marriage . Committees of Correspondence . Boston Port Bill . Members of Assembly enter into articles of ...
... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . 26 CHAPTER III . 1772-1775 . His Marriage . Committees of Correspondence . Boston Port Bill . Members of Assembly enter into articles of ...
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... Britain- ratified by the Senate - made public by one of the Senators - violent opposition to it.-Mr. Jefferson's views of it - its provisions - its want of reciprocity detailed and explained . - 486 CHAPTER XXI . 1796 . The British ...
... Britain- ratified by the Senate - made public by one of the Senators - violent opposition to it.-Mr. Jefferson's views of it - its provisions - its want of reciprocity detailed and explained . - 486 CHAPTER XXI . 1796 . The British ...
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... Britain , which first gave them a place among nations , as the most important era in their common history . They will naturally regard with veneration and interest all which relates to that great drama , and more especially the fortunes ...
... Britain , which first gave them a place among nations , as the most important era in their common history . They will naturally regard with veneration and interest all which relates to that great drama , and more especially the fortunes ...
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... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . THOMAS JEFFERSON was born on the 2nd day of April , 1743 , at a place called Shadwell , in what is now the county of Albe- marle , but ...
... Britain to tax the colonies . The members meet at the Raleigh Tavern . Progress of discontents . THOMAS JEFFERSON was born on the 2nd day of April , 1743 , at a place called Shadwell , in what is now the county of Albe- marle , but ...
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... that paragraph in my letter wherein I mentioned to you my resolution of going to Britain . And to begin an affair of that kind now , and carry it on so long a time in form , is by ho means a 34 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... that paragraph in my letter wherein I mentioned to you my resolution of going to Britain . And to begin an affair of that kind now , and carry it on so long a time in form , is by ho means a 34 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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Страница 543 - permitted freely to contradict them. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, 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
Страница 540 - 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. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of
Страница 540 - CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. 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. And that this assemblage
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Страница 540 - to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited: and,] we [ d ] appealed to their native justice and magnanimity [as well as to'] the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which [were likely to'] interrupt our connexion and correspondence. They too have been
Страница 78 - internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtably attainable. We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the divine favour towards us, that his providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operations,
Страница 539 - for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependant 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
Страница 540 - the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, re-established them in power. At this very time too, they are permitting their chief