The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen2Derby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... DEAR SIR : PHILADELPHIA , July 17 , 1791 . I have a dozen times taken up my pen to write to you , and as often laid it down again , suspended between opposing considerations . I determine , however , to write from a conviction that ...
... DEAR SIR : PHILADELPHIA , July 17 , 1791 . I have a dozen times taken up my pen to write to you , and as often laid it down again , suspended between opposing considerations . I determine , however , to write from a conviction that ...
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... dear to his heart " —and that he " had not a doubt " Mr. Jefferson's " motives for writing to him " " were the most pure and the most friendly . " He declared that he had not , " either by himself or by any other , [ had ] a sentence of ...
... dear to his heart " —and that he " had not a doubt " Mr. Jefferson's " motives for writing to him " " were the most pure and the most friendly . " He declared that he had not , " either by himself or by any other , [ had ] a sentence of ...
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... dear friend , if the vine and the fig tree withdraw , and leave us to the bramble and thorn ? ” He added the following in regard to the French Revolution and its influence on American politics : " You will have heard , before this ...
... dear friend , if the vine and the fig tree withdraw , and leave us to the bramble and thorn ? ” He added the following in regard to the French Revolution and its influence on American politics : " You will have heard , before this ...
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... DEAR DAughter : TO MARTHA JEFFERSON RAndolph . PHILADELPHIA , Dec. 1st , 1790 . In my letter of last week to Mr ... dear Poll for me . Remember me to Mr. Randolph . I do not know yet how the Edgehill negotiation has terminated . Adieu ...
... DEAR DAughter : TO MARTHA JEFFERSON RAndolph . PHILADELPHIA , Dec. 1st , 1790 . In my letter of last week to Mr ... dear Poll for me . Remember me to Mr. Randolph . I do not know yet how the Edgehill negotiation has terminated . Adieu ...
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... DEAR DAUGHTER : This is a scolding letter for you all . I nave not received a scrip of a pen from home since I left it . I think it so easy for you to write me one letter every week , which will be but once in the three weeks for each ...
... DEAR DAUGHTER : This is a scolding letter for you all . I nave not received a scrip of a pen from home since I left it . I think it so easy for you to write me one letter every week , which will be but once in the three weeks for each ...
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Página 625 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Página 625 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse, that harmony and affection without which, liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect, that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 109 - The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood ? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Página 563 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion...
Página 625 - ... divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists.
Página 625 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 69 - Treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit...
Página 394 - ... the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the United States...
Página 394 - ... resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Página 293 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government, which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance, as they have already done the forms, of the British Government.