Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson: With Particular Reference to the Attack They Contain on the Memory of the Late Gen. Henry Lee ; in a Series of LettersJ. Dobson, 1839 - 262 Seiten |
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... Legislature of Virginia . The Declaration of Independence Remarks on an article on this subject in the New York Review . Comparison between Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Mason . Mr. Jef- ferson elected Governor of Virginia - His flight from ...
... Legislature of Virginia . The Declaration of Independence Remarks on an article on this subject in the New York Review . Comparison between Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Mason . Mr. Jef- ferson elected Governor of Virginia - His flight from ...
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... legislature , and the first month of its session , ( the period to prepare for and mature the great measures of that body , ) we find the whole embraced between pages 393 and 405 of his third volume ; and examining these more ...
... legislature , and the first month of its session , ( the period to prepare for and mature the great measures of that body , ) we find the whole embraced between pages 393 and 405 of his third volume ; and examining these more ...
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... Legislature of Maryland , p . 42-3 . Indeed the reader of the only sketches of the debates of the convention which formed the constitution , which have yet appeared , ( those furnished by Judge Yates , ) will be surprised to find into ...
... Legislature of Maryland , p . 42-3 . Indeed the reader of the only sketches of the debates of the convention which formed the constitution , which have yet appeared , ( those furnished by Judge Yates , ) will be surprised to find into ...
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... legislature declared , fomented a formidable domestic insurrection . Since , of his contradictory opinions on this subject , those ex- pressed in his letter to Mr. Morse , are said to be conscientious , the natural and melancholy ...
... legislature declared , fomented a formidable domestic insurrection . Since , of his contradictory opinions on this subject , those ex- pressed in his letter to Mr. Morse , are said to be conscientious , the natural and melancholy ...
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... legislature , and the patriotic forbearance of the executive ; and had advanced from an organized disobedience of the law , to a military attack upon its officers . That one detachment of the insurgents had seized and violated the ...
... legislature , and the patriotic forbearance of the executive ; and had advanced from an organized disobedience of the law , to a military attack upon its officers . That one detachment of the insurgents had seized and violated the ...
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Seite 39 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Seite 127 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary.
Seite 190 - York. He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, what1 ever obstacles opposed.
Seite 11 - I have been witness to; nor did I believe until lately, that it was within the bounds of probability, hardly within those of possibility, that, while I was using my utmost exertions to establish a national character of our own, independent, as far as our obligations and justice would permit, of every nation of the earth...
Seite 79 - By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often and as much and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
Seite 254 - It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Seite 81 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical 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.
Seite 11 - I conceived you entertained of me; that to your particular friends and connexions you have described, and they have denounced me, as a person under a dangerous influence, and that, if I would listen more to some other opinions, all would be well.
Seite 189 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment %vas ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 12 - As you have mentioned the subject yourself, it would not be frank, candid, or friendly to conceal, that your conduct has been represented as derogating from that opinion I had conceived you entertained of me...