The Life and Writings of ...Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900 - 476 páginas |
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... caused him to lose hope of the speedy settlement of the slavery question in Vir- ginia , but it did not shake his belief in the justice of the cause . In 1770 Jefferson's home at Shadwell was destroyed by fire , and with it his ...
... caused him to lose hope of the speedy settlement of the slavery question in Vir- ginia , but it did not shake his belief in the justice of the cause . In 1770 Jefferson's home at Shadwell was destroyed by fire , and with it his ...
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... caused to be adopted by the freeholders of Albemarle County a set of resolutions in which the right of self - government among the colonies without the intervention of Parliament was strictly asserted . Other coun- ties passed spirited ...
... caused to be adopted by the freeholders of Albemarle County a set of resolutions in which the right of self - government among the colonies without the intervention of Parliament was strictly asserted . Other coun- ties passed spirited ...
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... cause , break a horse , dance a minuet , and play the violin . " His fame had preceded him in Congress . " Mr ... causes for taking up arms . The report of this com- mittee proving unsatisfactory , Congress recommitted it and added ...
... cause , break a horse , dance a minuet , and play the violin . " His fame had preceded him in Congress . " Mr ... causes for taking up arms . The report of this com- mittee proving unsatisfactory , Congress recommitted it and added ...
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... caused him to leave America at the outbreak of hostilities and take up his residence in England , reflects in clear light Jefferson's views upon the troublous questions of the hour . “ I would rather be in dependence on Great Britain ...
... caused him to leave America at the outbreak of hostilities and take up his residence in England , reflects in clear light Jefferson's views upon the troublous questions of the hour . “ I would rather be in dependence on Great Britain ...
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... being so acrimonious as to cause Jefferson to wince . During the overhauling some of Jefferson's fine phrases were expunged ; * See Independence , Declaration of , page 257 . which was , of course , a good thing . OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 17.
... being so acrimonious as to cause Jefferson to wince . During the overhauling some of Jefferson's fine phrases were expunged ; * See Independence , Declaration of , page 257 . which was , of course , a good thing . OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 17.
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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.