The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen2Derby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... March 13th , 1791 : " I wish you would come forward to the federal Legislature and give your assist- ance on a larger scale than that on which you are acting at present . I am satisfied you could render essential service ; and I have ...
... March 13th , 1791 : " I wish you would come forward to the federal Legislature and give your assist- ance on a larger scale than that on which you are acting at present . I am satisfied you could render essential service ; and I have ...
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... March , 1791 . In April , the President set out on a tour through the Southern States . Informing the Cabinet of the points where their com- munications would find him , at specified dates , he directed them , if serious questions ...
... March , 1791 . In April , the President set out on a tour through the Southern States . Informing the Cabinet of the points where their com- munications would find him , at specified dates , he directed them , if serious questions ...
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... March 6th came I am happy to have a letter of yours to answer . to my hands on the 24th . By the by , you never acknowledged the receipt of my letters , nor tell me on what day they came to hand . I presume that by this time you have ...
... March 6th came I am happy to have a letter of yours to answer . to my hands on the 24th . By the by , you never acknowledged the receipt of my letters , nor tell me on what day they came to hand . I presume that by this time you have ...
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... March , I have received yours of March 22. I am indeed sorry to hear of the situation of Walter Gilmer , and shall hope the letters from Monticello will continue to inform me how he does . I know how much his parents will suffer , and ...
... March , I have received yours of March 22. I am indeed sorry to hear of the situation of Walter Gilmer , and shall hope the letters from Monticello will continue to inform me how he does . I know how much his parents will suffer , and ...
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... March 2 , 24 , April 17 , May 8 , which you will observe to be pretty regularly once in three weeks . Matters in France are still going on safely . Mirabeau is dead ; also the Duke de Richelieu ; so that the Duke de Fronsac has now ...
... March 2 , 24 , April 17 , May 8 , which you will observe to be pretty regularly once in three weeks . Matters in France are still going on safely . Mirabeau is dead ; also the Duke de Richelieu ; so that the Duke de Fronsac has now ...
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Página 631 - During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore...
Página 396 - ... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the Government of the United States...
Página 109 - 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 an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Página 632 - 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 296 - It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.
Página 295 - Against us are the Executive, the Judiciary, two out of three branches of the Legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty...
Página 450 - That this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and to live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority ; and that the co-states recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these acts void and of no force, and will each unite with this Commonwealth in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress.
Página 295 - 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.
Página 287 - ... it is essential to the due administration of the government that the boundaries fixed by the constitution between the different departments should be preserved; a just regard to the constitution, and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request.
Página 321 - Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life. yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example, as to be under thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation.