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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... tion was assumed by Jefferson , who throughout his life was what we should call , in these days , a scientific farmer . His " garden - book , " a monument of detail and patience , shows that he was deeply interested in the processes of ...
... tion was assumed by Jefferson , who throughout his life was what we should call , in these days , a scientific farmer . His " garden - book , " a monument of detail and patience , shows that he was deeply interested in the processes of ...
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... tion does not say , but it does aver that they took their hats and retired to return no more on the same errand . " Jefferson was happy in his marriage . His wife was a woman distinguished by charms of mind and person , and she received ...
... tion does not say , but it does aver that they took their hats and retired to return no more on the same errand . " Jefferson was happy in his marriage . His wife was a woman distinguished by charms of mind and person , and she received ...
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... tion of causes for taking up arms . The report of this com- mittee proving unsatisfactory , Congress recommitted it and added Jefferson and John Dickinson to the committee . Jeffer- son drew up a declaration that was too strong for the ...
... tion of causes for taking up arms . The report of this com- mittee proving unsatisfactory , Congress recommitted it and added Jefferson and John Dickinson to the committee . Jeffer- son drew up a declaration that was too strong for the ...
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... tion , we hope also to pursue our own without molestation . " In a few weeks hard work and an aggressive and fearless nature had brought Jefferson to the front in Congress . " He was so prompt , frank , explicit , and decisive upon ...
... tion , we hope also to pursue our own without molestation . " In a few weeks hard work and an aggressive and fearless nature had brought Jefferson to the front in Congress . " He was so prompt , frank , explicit , and decisive upon ...
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... tion has no right to bind succeeding generations ; that the usufruct of the earth belongs to the living , not to the dead . Entails , he said , were " contrary to good policy , tended to de- ceive honest traders who gave credit on the ...
... tion has no right to bind succeeding generations ; that the usufruct of the earth belongs to the living , not to the dead . Entails , he said , were " contrary to good policy , tended to de- ceive honest traders who gave credit on the ...
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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.