The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Band 14Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 66
Seite viii
... Europe , nor lulled into false security by the peaceful attitude of the country at the time of his Presidential incumbency . He believed in the proposition that the way to secure peace is to be prepared for war . The autocrat of the ...
... Europe , nor lulled into false security by the peaceful attitude of the country at the time of his Presidential incumbency . He believed in the proposition that the way to secure peace is to be prepared for war . The autocrat of the ...
Seite 19
... Europe . Have you read La Harpe's Cours de Literature , in fifteen volumes ? Have you read St. Pierre's Studies of Nature ? I am now reading the controversy between Vol- taire and Monotte . Our friend Rush has given us for his last ...
... Europe . Have you read La Harpe's Cours de Literature , in fifteen volumes ? Have you read St. Pierre's Studies of Nature ? I am now reading the controversy between Vol- taire and Monotte . Our friend Rush has given us for his last ...
Seite 21
... European dependence I have no doubt ; but in what kind of government their revolution will end I am not so certain . History , I believe , furnishes no example of a priest - ridden people maintaining a free civil government . This marks ...
... European dependence I have no doubt ; but in what kind of government their revolution will end I am not so certain . History , I believe , furnishes no example of a priest - ridden people maintaining a free civil government . This marks ...
Seite 22
... Europe . The European nations constitute a separate division of the globe ; their localities make them part of a distinct system ; they have a set of interests of their own in which it is our busi- ness never to engage ourselves ...
... Europe . The European nations constitute a separate division of the globe ; their localities make them part of a distinct system ; they have a set of interests of their own in which it is our busi- ness never to engage ourselves ...
Seite 30
... Europe ? Give equal habits of energy to the bodies , and of science to the minds of her citizens , and where could her superior be found ? The most advantageous relation in which she can stand with her American colonies is that of ...
... Europe ? Give equal habits of energy to the bodies , and of science to the minds of her citizens , and where could her superior be found ? The most advantageous relation in which she can stand with her American colonies is that of ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Accept the assurance Aethelbert Alfred aristocracy authority banks believe Bollandists Bonaparte Cæsar character Christianity citizens common law Congress consider Constitution copy course DEAR SIR,-Your declared dollars doubt duty enemy England English established esteem and respect Europe existence Finch France French give hand happiness Heptarchy honor hope human interest Jefferson JOHN ADAMS judges labor lative legislature letter Lex Scripta liberty Linnæus lived Lord Lord Coke Lord Mansfield mammæ means memory ment merit millions mind MONTICELLO moral nation nature never object observations opinion paper peace Peyton Randolph philosophy Plato political possess present Priestley principles Prisot Pseudograph Pythagoras question received recollect religion rendered republican Revolution scripture sincerely Sir Matthew Hale SIR,-Your favor society Spain taken THOMAS JEFFERSON tion triangle truth Washington Weregild whole wish words write Zaleucus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 380 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Seite 105 - 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 x - Thou too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Seite 105 - 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 i - 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 400 - 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 84 - Stra. 834. the court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity was punishable in the temporal courts at common law? Wood, therefore, 409. ventures still to vary the phrase, and says " that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,
Seite 46 - 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 115 - 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.