Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... British Empire who more cordially loved a union with Great Britain than he did . John Jay said after the Revolution : " During the course of my life , and until the second peti- tion of Congress in 1775 , I never did hear any American ...
... British Empire who more cordially loved a union with Great Britain than he did . John Jay said after the Revolution : " During the course of my life , and until the second peti- tion of Congress in 1775 , I never did hear any American ...
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... British war schooner , Gaspee , by leading citizens of Providence , and the famous tea - party in Boston harbor . Meanwhile Virginia had not been inactive . In March , 1772 , a few young men , members of the House of Burgesses , met at ...
... British war schooner , Gaspee , by leading citizens of Providence , and the famous tea - party in Boston harbor . Meanwhile Virginia had not been inactive . In March , 1772 , a few young men , members of the House of Burgesses , met at ...
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... ; and it stimulated the British to increased exertions . The Brit- ish commissioners announced that hence- forth England would employ , in the prosecu- tion of the war , all those agencies which " GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
... ; and it stimulated the British to increased exertions . The Brit- ish commissioners announced that hence- forth England would employ , in the prosecu- tion of the war , all those agencies which " GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
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... British , he showed a firmness which must have been especially difficult for a man of his temperament . He put in irons and con- fined in a dungeon Colonel Henry Hamilton and two subordinate officers who had com- mitted atrocities upon ...
... British , he showed a firmness which must have been especially difficult for a man of his temperament . He put in irons and con- fined in a dungeon Colonel Henry Hamilton and two subordinate officers who had com- mitted atrocities upon ...
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... British at New York , to be prepared ; and the exchange of captives be- tween Virginia and the British was stopped . “ Humane conduct on our part , " wrote Jef- ferson , " was found to produce no effect . The contrary , therefore , is ...
... British at New York , to be prepared ; and the exchange of captives be- tween Virginia and the British was stopped . “ Humane conduct on our part , " wrote Jef- ferson , " was found to produce no effect . The contrary , therefore , is ...
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Página 147 - Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.
Página 53 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 109 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 124 - It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Página 56 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 53 - 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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Página 158 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 54 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Página 81 - Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government was evidently the favorite sentiment. An apostate I could not be, nor yet a hypocrite; and I found myself for the most part the only advocate on the republican side of the question...
Página 71 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.