Life of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections from the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivalled Private Correspondence. By B. L. RaynerLilly, Wait, Colman, & Holden, 1834 - 431 |
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... vote : for one vote would have divided the House , and Robinson was in the chair , who he knew would have negatived the resolution . " It was in the midst of this magnificent appeal that Henry is said to have exclaimed , in a voice of ...
... vote : for one vote would have divided the House , and Robinson was in the chair , who he knew would have negatived the resolution . " It was in the midst of this magnificent appeal that Henry is said to have exclaimed , in a voice of ...
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... vote . Yet the courteous and conciliatory account which Mr Jefferson has left of the transaction , ascribes the failure of the bill to the vicious and despotic influence of the government , which , by its unceasing frown , overawed ...
... vote . Yet the courteous and conciliatory account which Mr Jefferson has left of the transaction , ascribes the failure of the bill to the vicious and despotic influence of the government , which , by its unceasing frown , overawed ...
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... vote declared than the opposing members , one and all , went over to the majority , and lent their names to supply the blank in the resolution . They quickened their gait somewhat beyond that which their prudence had of itself advised ...
... vote declared than the opposing members , one and all , went over to the majority , and lent their names to supply the blank in the resolution . They quickened their gait somewhat beyond that which their prudence had of itself advised ...
Strona 67
... Mercer , and a dash of cold water on it here and there , enfeebling it somewhat , but finally with unanimi- ty , or a vote approaching it . ' " 6 • In this paper the author did not scruple to intimate THOMAS JEFFERSON . 67.
... Mercer , and a dash of cold water on it here and there , enfeebling it somewhat , but finally with unanimi- ty , or a vote approaching it . ' " 6 • In this paper the author did not scruple to intimate THOMAS JEFFERSON . 67.
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... vote being passed , although farther observation on it was out of order , he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction , and concluded by saying , " There is but one word , Mr President , in the paper which I ...
... vote being passed , although farther observation on it was out of order , he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction , and concluded by saying , " There is but one word , Mr President , in the paper which I ...
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Strona 64 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Strona 305 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Strona 62 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Strona xix - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Strona 133 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
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Strona 79 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, (if ever he had a chosen people,) whose breasts He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise, might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Strona 309 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Strona 96 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Strona 97 - ... 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...