The Life and Times of Thomas JeffersonJ. W. Bradley, 1859 - 386 Seiten |
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... England - Death of Mrs. Jefferson - Mission to England abandoned - Mr . Jefferson elected a Delegate to Congress - Improvements in the Currency - Washington resigns his Commission to Congress at Annapolis - The Definitive Treaty with ...
... England - Death of Mrs. Jefferson - Mission to England abandoned - Mr . Jefferson elected a Delegate to Congress - Improvements in the Currency - Washington resigns his Commission to Congress at Annapolis - The Definitive Treaty with ...
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... England , Holland , France , Spain , Italy , ( where I would buy me a good fiddle , ) and Egypt , and return through the British provinces to the Northward , home . This to be sure , would take us two or three years , and if we should ...
... England , Holland , France , Spain , Italy , ( where I would buy me a good fiddle , ) and Egypt , and return through the British provinces to the Northward , home . This to be sure , would take us two or three years , and if we should ...
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... England of persons accused of treason in the colonies , in order there to be tried , was illegal , unconstitutional , and unjust . In the discussion and the passage of these resolutions , Mr. Jefferson took a decided and prominent part ...
... England of persons accused of treason in the colonies , in order there to be tried , was illegal , unconstitutional , and unjust . In the discussion and the passage of these resolutions , Mr. Jefferson took a decided and prominent part ...
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... England for trial . It had already become the determined purpose of Jef- ferson , and a few congenial spirits in Virginia , to take advantage of every occasion to keep alive the spirit of resistance to British tyranny in the colo- nies ...
... England for trial . It had already become the determined purpose of Jef- ferson , and a few congenial spirits in Virginia , to take advantage of every occasion to keep alive the spirit of resistance to British tyranny in the colo- nies ...
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... England and her incensed colonies . In consequence of the diminution of trade between the two countries , a vast amount of tea had accumulated in the ware- houses of the East India Company . This immense monopoly was a favorite of the ...
... England and her incensed colonies . In consequence of the diminution of trade between the two countries , a vast amount of tea had accumulated in the ware- houses of the East India Company . This immense monopoly was a favorite of the ...
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Seite 252 - 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.
Seite 326 - For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the...
Seite 327 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 325 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 95 - 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 293 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Seite 254 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Seite 24 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Seite 325 - He has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these states, refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made our judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices by a selfassumed power, and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Seite 352 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.