The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Band 14Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 - 522 Seiten Volume 14 in the 20-book set of writings from Thomas Jefferson, this text includes the letters the president wrote after his return to the United States from France in 1789 until his death in 1826. This volume also includesThe Memory of Thomas Jefferson, an essay by John B. Stanchfield, a prominent politician of the late 1800s. |
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... bank , and the establishment of a federal judiciary with unlimited powers , Jefferson saw the end of the republic and the aggressive approach of a monarchy . This con- troversy so defined and begun , terminated neither with the death of ...
... bank , and the establishment of a federal judiciary with unlimited powers , Jefferson saw the end of the republic and the aggressive approach of a monarchy . This con- troversy so defined and begun , terminated neither with the death of ...
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... bank , and the creation of an army and navy no larger than was necessary for purposes of defence , because he believed the people so willed , and that these principles harmonized with the largest share of personal freedom in the ...
... bank , and the creation of an army and navy no larger than was necessary for purposes of defence , because he believed the people so willed , and that these principles harmonized with the largest share of personal freedom in the ...
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... Rensselaer's or Philips's ; even our Deacon Strong will have a principality among you southern folk . What in- equality of talents will be produced by these land jobbers . Where tends the mania of banks ? At 8 Jefferson's Works.
... Rensselaer's or Philips's ; even our Deacon Strong will have a principality among you southern folk . What in- equality of talents will be produced by these land jobbers . Where tends the mania of banks ? At 8 Jefferson's Works.
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... banks ; but giving Congress authority to establish one bank with a branch in each State , the whole limited to ten ... banks , begotten , brooded and hatched by Duer , Robert and Gouverneur Morris , Hamilton and Wash- ington , I have ...
... banks ; but giving Congress authority to establish one bank with a branch in each State , the whole limited to ten ... banks , begotten , brooded and hatched by Duer , Robert and Gouverneur Morris , Hamilton and Wash- ington , I have ...
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... banks , in the beginning , is now coming to pass . We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper , as we were formerly by the old Continental paper . It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of ...
... banks , in the beginning , is now coming to pass . We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper , as we were formerly by the old Continental paper . It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite iii - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 384 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Seite 94 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Seite 109 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Seite 109 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, " Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Seite iii - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Seite 404 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Seite 50 - In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing...
Seite 119 - In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Seite 404 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...