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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... things exerted a decided influence on the manners and character of the colonists , untrained to habits of business and possessed of the means of hospitality . They were open - handed and open - hearted ; fond of society , in- dulging in ...
... things exerted a decided influence on the manners and character of the colonists , untrained to habits of business and possessed of the means of hospitality . They were open - handed and open - hearted ; fond of society , in- dulging in ...
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... thing afterwards took place during the greater part of the time of the Commonwealth . The Governor and Council , too , in their judicial character , exercised original as well as appellate jurisdiction , and ap- peals from their ...
... thing afterwards took place during the greater part of the time of the Commonwealth . The Governor and Council , too , in their judicial character , exercised original as well as appellate jurisdiction , and ap- peals from their ...
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... thing as a Devil in this world , he must have been here last night and have had some hand in contriving what happened to me . Do you think the cursed rats ( at his instigation , I suppose ) did not eat up my pocket - book , which was in ...
... thing as a Devil in this world , he must have been here last night and have had some hand in contriving what happened to me . Do you think the cursed rats ( at his instigation , I suppose ) did not eat up my pocket - book , which was in ...
Σελίδα 25
... thing worse , and from a different quarter , had not happened . You know it rained last night , or if you do not know it , I am sure I do . When I went to bed , I laid my watch in the usual place , and going to take her up after I arose ...
... thing worse , and from a different quarter , had not happened . You know it rained last night , or if you do not know it , I am sure I do . When I went to bed , I laid my watch in the usual place , and going to take her up after I arose ...
Σελίδα 26
... thing as happiness in this world ? No. And as for admiration , I am sure the man who powders most , perfumes most , embroiders most , and talks most nonsense , is most admired . Though to be candid , there are some who have too much ...
... thing as happiness in this world ? No. And as for admiration , I am sure the man who powders most , perfumes most , embroiders most , and talks most nonsense , is most admired . Though to be candid , there are some who have too much ...
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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.