The Life and Times of Thomas JeffersonJ. W. Bradley, 1859 - 386 páginas |
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Página 328 - compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad and so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in principles of freedom.] Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend [a*] jurisdiction over [these our states,
Página 326 - begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy § unworthy the head of a civilized nation. 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. * In
Página 327 - among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.] In every stage of these oppressions we
Página 250 - all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful
Página 131 - inhabitants, as many as shall then be in any one of the least numerous of the thirteen original States, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the said original States; after which the assent
Página 131 - original States shall be so subject. " 3. That they shall be subject to pay a part of the Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States. " 4. That their respective governments shall be
Página 327 - 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 for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting those very people to
Página 250 - exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the
Página 252 - adoring an over-ruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter ; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens ; a wise and frugal government, which restraining men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to
Página 352 - by the smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten before you speak ; if very angry, a hundred. He also cited to him for his imitation, the translation of one of the Psalms, beginning, " Lord, who's the happy man ;" which he calls " the portrait of a good man by the most sublime of poets.
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The Third-term Tradition: Its Rise and Collapse in American Politics Charles W. Stein Vista de fragmentos - 1959 |