The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - 267 páginas |
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... opinion , Henry , one of the most em- inent , but at the same time the most indolent of men , was the first who gave impetus to the ball of the revo- lution in the province of Virginia . Such are the effects of oratorial eloquence ! Its ...
... opinion , Henry , one of the most em- inent , but at the same time the most indolent of men , was the first who gave impetus to the ball of the revo- lution in the province of Virginia . Such are the effects of oratorial eloquence ! Its ...
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... opinion of a day ; but a series of oppressions pursued so unalterably through every change of ministers , as to prove too plain- ly a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing the colonies to slavery . He next proceeds , in a style ...
... opinion of a day ; but a series of oppressions pursued so unalterably through every change of ministers , as to prove too plain- ly a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing the colonies to slavery . He next proceeds , in a style ...
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... of independence ; and that , accord- ing to the ordinary operations of the human mind , they would rapidly retrogade towards the opinions they had abjured . 52 LIFE OF JEFFERSON . war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish com ...
... of independence ; and that , accord- ing to the ordinary operations of the human mind , they would rapidly retrogade towards the opinions they had abjured . 52 LIFE OF JEFFERSON . war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish com ...
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... opinions they had abjured . When despair once begins , the prostration of energy follows as its immediate consequence . But the war was inevitable , all arrangement impossible , and the Congress urged by necessity to take a decisive ...
... opinions they had abjured . When despair once begins , the prostration of energy follows as its immediate consequence . But the war was inevitable , all arrangement impossible , and the Congress urged by necessity to take a decisive ...
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... opinion , but for a national existence - for life or death . It be- came , under the awful sanction of that assembly , the temperate and determined stand of men who had en- trenched themselves within the certain and thoroughly ...
... opinion , but for a national existence - for life or death . It be- came , under the awful sanction of that assembly , the temperate and determined stand of men who had en- trenched themselves within the certain and thoroughly ...
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Página 49 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 49 - 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 49 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, 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 223 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Página 223 - I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you...
Página 62 - 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 169 - I will now tell you what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations.
Página 225 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Página 257 - May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Página 257 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.