The Life and Writings of ...Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900 - 476 páginas |
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... election to the Convention and to the House of Burgesses in July , 1774 , he drew up and 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 ...
... election to the Convention and to the House of Burgesses in July , 1774 , he drew up and 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 ...
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... election was by ballot , with the following result : Peyton Randolph 89 votes , R. H. Lee 88 , Thomas Jefferson 85 , Benjamin Harrison 83 , Thomas Nelson 66 , Richard Bland 61 , George Wythe 58 . A question came before the Convention at ...
... election was by ballot , with the following result : Peyton Randolph 89 votes , R. H. Lee 88 , Thomas Jefferson 85 , Benjamin Harrison 83 , Thomas Nelson 66 , Richard Bland 61 , George Wythe 58 . A question came before the Convention at ...
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... election , and he barely escaped defeat , being next to the lowest upon the list of success- ful delegates . On the 28th of June he brought the Declaration before Congress . He had previously submitted it to the com- mittee , who ...
... election , and he barely escaped defeat , being next to the lowest upon the list of success- ful delegates . On the 28th of June he brought the Declaration before Congress . He had previously submitted it to the com- mittee , who ...
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... election by declining to serve further . Through his influence his friend General Nelson was chosen as his successor . Supreme military power was conferred upon Nelson , but he proved to be as powerless as Jefferson to bring relief from ...
... election by declining to serve further . Through his influence his friend General Nelson was chosen as his successor . Supreme military power was conferred upon Nelson , but he proved to be as powerless as Jefferson to bring relief from ...
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... election of 1796 found him the candidate of his party . If we may trust his own protestations , he became a candidate much against his will . To Madison's urgent appeal that he assume the leadership of his party he replied ( April ...
... election of 1796 found him the candidate of his party . If we may trust his own protestations , he became a candidate much against his will . To Madison's urgent appeal that he assume the leadership of his party he replied ( April ...
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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.