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, Τόμος 1C. Knight, 1837 - 4 σελίδες |
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... lived at Osborne's , in the county of Chesterfield , and who had three Of these , Thomas died young , Field settled on the southern border of the state , and left numerous descendants , and Peter , the father of the subject of this ...
... lived at Osborne's , in the county of Chesterfield , and who had three Of these , Thomas died young , Field settled on the southern border of the state , and left numerous descendants , and Peter , the father of the subject of this ...
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... lived . The other , and far more valuable acquaintance which he owed to Dr. Small , was Mr. Wythe , at that time a lawyer of eminence , and afterwards , in succession , a member of the first Congress , a professor in William and Mary ...
... lived . The other , and far more valuable acquaintance which he owed to Dr. Small , was Mr. Wythe , at that time a lawyer of eminence , and afterwards , in succession , a member of the first Congress , a professor in William and Mary ...
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... lived suspension of the ill feeling between Great Britain and her colonies ; but the attempt made by her in the following year , 1767 , to draw a revenue from them , in the less obvious form of an impost , small as that impost was ...
... lived suspension of the ill feeling between Great Britain and her colonies ; but the attempt made by her in the following year , 1767 , to draw a revenue from them , in the less obvious form of an impost , small as that impost was ...
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... lived with his mother , caught fire , while they were on a visit to a neighbour ; and in the alarm and confusion of the slaves , almost everything in it was consumed . The one who brought him the first tidings of his misfortune ...
... lived with his mother , caught fire , while they were on a visit to a neighbour ; and in the alarm and confusion of the slaves , almost everything in it was consumed . The one who brought him the first tidings of his misfortune ...
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... lived a free and happy people . " Mr. Henry then offered two resolutions conceived in a very different spirit . The first declared , that a well - regulated militia is the natural strength and only security of a free government ; that ...
... lived a free and happy people . " Mr. Henry then offered two resolutions conceived in a very different spirit . The first declared , that a well - regulated militia is the natural strength and only security of a free government ; that ...
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Σελίδα 241 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Σελίδα 611 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Σελίδα 611 - 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.
Σελίδα 609 - 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Σελίδα 32 - 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.
Σελίδα 125 - 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. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Σελίδα 610 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 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 self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Σελίδα 87 - 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.
Σελίδα 259 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.