The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen2Derby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... whole Cabinet - Enormities charged on the Troops - Editors whipped - Pennsylvania State Elections - The Candidates and the Result - Jefferson's Letters to Mrs. Eppes- His Domestic Affairs in Summer of 1799 - Political Letters - Virginia ...
... whole Cabinet - Enormities charged on the Troops - Editors whipped - Pennsylvania State Elections - The Candidates and the Result - Jefferson's Letters to Mrs. Eppes- His Domestic Affairs in Summer of 1799 - Political Letters - Virginia ...
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... whole with security . Their islands , but most particularly St. Domingo and Martinique , are involved in a horrid civil war . Nothing can be more distressing than the situation of the inhabitants , as their slaves have been called into ...
... whole with security . Their islands , but most particularly St. Domingo and Martinique , are involved in a horrid civil war . Nothing can be more distressing than the situation of the inhabitants , as their slaves have been called into ...
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... whole as could be found in Carolina er Georgia . I suspect , indeed , that the heats of northern climates may be more powerful than those of southern ones in propor- tion as they are shorter . Perhaps vegetation requires this . There is ...
... whole as could be found in Carolina er Georgia . I suspect , indeed , that the heats of northern climates may be more powerful than those of southern ones in propor- tion as they are shorter . Perhaps vegetation requires this . There is ...
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... whole of it very perfect health . I am in hopes the relaxation it gave me from business , has freed me from the almost con- stant headache with which I had been persecuted through the whole winter and spring . Having been entirely clear ...
... whole of it very perfect health . I am in hopes the relaxation it gave me from business , has freed me from the almost con- stant headache with which I had been persecuted through the whole winter and spring . Having been entirely clear ...
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... whole weight of it then , by taking away the shelter of his executive council . Experience both ways has already established the superiority of this measure . Render the judiciary respectable by every possible means , to wit , firm ...
... whole weight of it then , by taking away the shelter of his executive council . Experience both ways has already established the superiority of this measure . Render the judiciary respectable by every possible means , to wit , firm ...
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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.