The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including All of His Important Utterances on Public QuestionsBowen-Merrill Company, 1900 - 474 páginas |
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... Virginia . His father , Peter Jefferson , was a farmer , prosperous , strong in body , intellectual , and capable of public spirit . His mother was Jane Randolph , a refined and accomplished daughter of Isham Randolph , a worthy ...
... Virginia . His father , Peter Jefferson , was a farmer , prosperous , strong in body , intellectual , and capable of public spirit . His mother was Jane Randolph , a refined and accomplished daughter of Isham Randolph , a worthy ...
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... Virginia . Williamsburg was an unpaved , hap - hazard village of about a thousand inhabitants . Small as the little capital may appear to us by comparison , it was nevertheless the center of much social and civic activity . While the ...
... Virginia . Williamsburg was an unpaved , hap - hazard village of about a thousand inhabitants . Small as the little capital may appear to us by comparison , it was nevertheless the center of much social and civic activity . While the ...
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... Virginia - the ablest man , in Jefferson's opinion , that ever held that position . Fauquier was a man of the world , an imitator of the manners and a disciple of the philosophy of Chesterfield , a liberal host , and a thorough - going ...
... Virginia - the ablest man , in Jefferson's opinion , that ever held that position . Fauquier was a man of the world , an imitator of the manners and a disciple of the philosophy of Chesterfield , a liberal host , and a thorough - going ...
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... Virginia . He was now in his twenty - fourth year . JEFFERSON AS A FARMER AND LAWYER . The civilization of Virginia in the eighteenth century was uniformly and universally rural . When Jefferson at the age of seventeen entered ...
... Virginia . He was now in his twenty - fourth year . JEFFERSON AS A FARMER AND LAWYER . The civilization of Virginia in the eighteenth century was uniformly and universally rural . When Jefferson at the age of seventeen entered ...
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... Virginia . The second year brought him one hun- dred and fifteen cases . Among his clients were the Blands , Burwells , Carters , Harrisons , Randolphs , Lees , Nelsons , Pages . He continued in a lucrative practice until 1774 , when ...
... Virginia . The second year brought him one hun- dred and fifteen cases . Among his clients were the Blands , Burwells , Carters , Harrisons , Randolphs , Lees , Nelsons , Pages . He continued in a lucrative practice until 1774 , when ...
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Página 261 - 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. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 384 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 355 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 248 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Página 232 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Página 261 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Página 260 - 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 383 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 259 - 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 150 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.