The Life and Writings of ...Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900 - 476 páginas |
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... body , intellectual , and capable of public spirit . His mother was Jane Randolph , a refined and accomplished daughter of Isham Randolph , a worthy representative of the powerful family whose name he bore . Thus from both father and ...
... body , intellectual , and capable of public spirit . His mother was Jane Randolph , a refined and accomplished daughter of Isham Randolph , a worthy representative of the powerful family whose name he bore . Thus from both father and ...
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... body that met in Virginia . Among its members were Peyton Randolph , Patrick Henry , Benjamin Harrison and the Lees . Jefferson was chosen to represent Albemarle County , but on his way to Williamsburg he was taken ill and was prevented ...
... body that met in Virginia . Among its members were Peyton Randolph , Patrick Henry , Benjamin Harrison and the Lees . Jefferson was chosen to represent Albemarle County , but on his way to Williamsburg he was taken ill and was prevented ...
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... body into revo- lution . He moved that the Colony " be immediately put into a state of defense , " and in support of his motion delivered a speech that set on fire the souls of his hearers and still thrills the hearts of American school ...
... body into revo- lution . He moved that the Colony " be immediately put into a state of defense , " and in support of his motion delivered a speech that set on fire the souls of his hearers and still thrills the hearts of American school ...
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... body , goaded to distraction , hurried on to a swift and ridiculous conclusion of the momentous question . To escape the flies a vote was taken ! The Declaration was adopted , four members voting against it and New York withholding its ...
... body , goaded to distraction , hurried on to a swift and ridiculous conclusion of the momentous question . To escape the flies a vote was taken ! The Declaration was adopted , four members voting against it and New York withholding its ...
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... body . My thanks are a poor return for the partiality they have been pleased to entertain for me . No cares for my own person nor yet for my private affairs would have induced one moment's hesitation to accept the charge . But ...
... body . My thanks are a poor return for the partiality they have been pleased to entertain for me . No cares for my own person nor yet for my private affairs would have induced one moment's hesitation to accept the charge . But ...
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administration affairs Albemarle County American appointment believe bill body British Burr called character citizens civil colonies commerce Congress consider Constitution court debt declared duties earth Edmund Randolph effect Elbridge Gerry election enemy England establishment Europe executive exercise favor Federal Federalists force foreign France freedom French friends George Wythe give Hamilton happiness hope House independent interest James Madison James Monroe Jefferson John Adams Joseph Priestly judges judiciary justice King land legislative legislature letter Levi Lincoln liberty Maria Cosway measure ment mind Minister Monticello moral nation natural right never Notes on Virginia object opinion party passed peace persons political President principles punishment Randolph reason religion Republican resolution Senate society Spain spirit things Thomas Jefferson tion treaty Union United VIII vote Washington whole William Short wish Written from Paris written in Paris wrote
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Página 261 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 132 - 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 396 - 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.
Página 367 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 248 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Página 232 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Página 260 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 395 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 396 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 259 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.