The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Band 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
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... hand , he has been taught to curb these sallies of passion or freaks of caprice , or has subjected himself to a course of salutary restraint , he is continually strengthening himself in the virtues of self - denial , forbearance , and ...
... hand , he has been taught to curb these sallies of passion or freaks of caprice , or has subjected himself to a course of salutary restraint , he is continually strengthening himself in the virtues of self - denial , forbearance , and ...
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... hand to load me with bodily afflictions . You must know , dear Page , that I am now in a house surrounded with enemies who take counsel together against my soul ; and when I lay me down to rest , they say among themselves , come let us ...
... hand to load me with bodily afflictions . You must know , dear Page , that I am now in a house surrounded with enemies who take counsel together against my soul ; and when I lay me down to rest , they say among themselves , come let us ...
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... hand . The rival you men- tioned I know not whether to think formidable or not , as there has been so great an opening for him during my absence . I say has been , because I expect there is one no longer . Since you have undertaken to ...
... hand . The rival you men- tioned I know not whether to think formidable or not , as there has been so great an opening for him during my absence . I say has been , because I expect there is one no longer . Since you have undertaken to ...
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... hand , which I must attend constantly , so that unless you come to town , there is little probability of my meeting with you any where else . For God sake come . I am , dear Page , Your sincere friend , T. JEFFERSON . Dear Page ...
... hand , which I must attend constantly , so that unless you come to town , there is little probability of my meeting with you any where else . For God sake come . I am , dear Page , Your sincere friend , T. JEFFERSON . Dear Page ...
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... hand . I wish I had followed your example , and wrote it in Latin , and that I had called my dear campana a in die , * instead of advies . We must fall on some scheme of communicating our thoughts to each other , which shall be totally ...
... hand . I wish I had followed your example , and wrote it in Latin , and that I had called my dear campana a in die , * instead of advies . We must fall on some scheme of communicating our thoughts to each other , which shall be totally ...
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Seite 539 - 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.
Seite 540 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Seite 540 - 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.
Seite 540 - 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 31 - 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 86 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 78 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Seite 541 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Seite 218 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Seite 540 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [] people [who mean to be free.