The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Band 1J. B. Lippincott, 1871 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 81
Seite xviii
... Officers - Philips , de Riedesel , de Geismer , etc. - Letter to Philips and to de Unger - Courtesies to the Prisoners - The Baroness de Riedesel - How Jefferson was repaid by the English and German Officers , 194 CHAPTER VII . 1779 ...
... Officers - Philips , de Riedesel , de Geismer , etc. - Letter to Philips and to de Unger - Courtesies to the Prisoners - The Baroness de Riedesel - How Jefferson was repaid by the English and German Officers , 194 CHAPTER VII . 1779 ...
Seite xix
... Officers - Clinton takes Charleston - Losses of Virginia - Losses at Monk's Corners - British Advance - Tarleton cuts Buford to Pieces - Description of Tarleton and his Legion - Lee's Statements respecting British Cruelties - A theory ...
... Officers - Clinton takes Charleston - Losses of Virginia - Losses at Monk's Corners - British Advance - Tarleton cuts Buford to Pieces - Description of Tarleton and his Legion - Lee's Statements respecting British Cruelties - A theory ...
Seite xx
... Officers ' Opinions of his Military Administration - Differences between Civil and Military Officers in the Revolution - Legislature meets at Staunton- " Another Panic " -Another Dictator Project - Necessity of putting Jefferson hors de ...
... Officers ' Opinions of his Military Administration - Differences between Civil and Military Officers in the Revolution - Legislature meets at Staunton- " Another Panic " -Another Dictator Project - Necessity of putting Jefferson hors de ...
Seite 48
... officers— the foremost of the lowland grandees - the most prominent men of the colony in all particulars , who were not themselves law- yers . We find him in various instances associated in the trial of causes with Mr. Wythe , Mr ...
... officers— the foremost of the lowland grandees - the most prominent men of the colony in all particulars , who were not themselves law- yers . We find him in various instances associated in the trial of causes with Mr. Wythe , Mr ...
Seite 78
... officers whose servility to government could be relied on , as a Court of Inquiry in the Gaspee affair , and intrusted with the power of deciding whether those whom they deter- mined should be placed on trial should be transported to ...
... officers whose servility to government could be relied on , as a Court of Inquiry in the Gaspee affair , and intrusted with the power of deciding whether those whom they deter- mined should be placed on trial should be transported to ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards Albemarle American appear appointed Archibald Cary arms army authority Benjamin Harrison bill body Britain British Carolina CHAP character Colonel Colonies command Committee Congress Convention Cornwallis Court Dabney Carr Declaration of Independence enemy England expression facts feelings France Franklin French friends George Girardin give Governor Jefferson hand Harrison Henry honor House of Burgesses hundred Jeffer John Adams John Adams's Judge King laws Lee's legislative Legislature letter Lord Memoir ment militia mind Monticello never Nicholas North Carolina occasion officers opinion paper Parliament passed patriotism peas Pendleton Peyton Randolph political present prisoners probably proposed proposition R. H. Lee reason regard remark render reported resolution Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams statements suppose Thomas Jefferson tion took troops views vote Washington Whigs whole Williamsburg Wirt Wirt's word writing wrote Wythe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 101 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
Seite 464 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Seite 174 - ... he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world...
Seite 427 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable"! citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds.
Seite 95 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa; yet our repeated attempts to effect this by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative...
Seite 280 - We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear ; When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...
Seite 220 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Seite 170 - Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
Seite 280 - Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts the tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day.
Seite 609 - ... Potomac ; and it was thought that by giving it to Philadelphia for ten years, and to Georgetown permanently afterwards, this might, as an anodyne, calm in some degree the ferment which might be excited by the other measure ] alone. So two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive,) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point. In doing this, the influence he had established over the eastern members, with the...