Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... elected by Virginia . Being taken ill himself , on his way to the convention , he sent forward a copy of these instructions . They were considered too drastic to be adopted by the convention ; but some of the members caused them to be ...
... elected by Virginia . Being taken ill himself , on his way to the convention , he sent forward a copy of these instructions . They were considered too drastic to be adopted by the convention ; but some of the members caused them to be ...
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... elected a member of the Continental Congress at its second session ; and he made a rapid journey to Philadelphia in a chaise , with two led horses behind , reaching there the night before Washington set out for Cambridge . The Congress ...
... elected a member of the Continental Congress at its second session ; and he made a rapid journey to Philadelphia in a chaise , with two led horses behind , reaching there the night before Washington set out for Cambridge . The Congress ...
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... elected a joint commissioner with Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane to represent at Paris the newly formed nation . His heart had long been set upon foreign travel ; but he felt obliged to decline this appointment , first on account of the ...
... elected a joint commissioner with Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane to represent at Paris the newly formed nation . His heart had long been set upon foreign travel ; but he felt obliged to decline this appointment , first on account of the ...
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... elected to the House , but he did not attend ; and both Madison and Monroe endeavored in vain to draw him from his seclusion . To Monroe he replied : " Before I ventured to declare to my countrymen my determination to re- tire from ...
... elected to the House , but he did not attend ; and both Madison and Monroe endeavored in vain to draw him from his seclusion . To Monroe he replied : " Before I ventured to declare to my countrymen my determination to re- tire from ...
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... elected a vestryman by the people of America . " 99 But for the French race Jefferson had an affinity . He was glad to live with people among whom , as he said , " a man might pass a life without encountering a single rude- ness . " He ...
... elected a vestryman by the people of America . " 99 But for the French race Jefferson had an affinity . He was glad to live with people among whom , as he said , " a man might pass a life without encountering a single rude- ness . " He ...
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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.