The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen3Derby & Jackson, 1868 |
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... authority of the Constitution . It furnishes an occasion , too , which I have long wished to find , of saying why I do not proclaim fastings and thanksgivings , as my pre- decessors did . The address , to be sure , does not point at ...
... authority of the Constitution . It furnishes an occasion , too , which I have long wished to find , of saying why I do not proclaim fastings and thanksgivings , as my pre- decessors did . The address , to be sure , does not point at ...
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... authorities for transporting the insur- gent blacks of Virginia to the colony of Sierra Leone . The fol- lowing was the closing paragraph of the letter , and it will be- come more interesting in the light of some subsequent circum ...
... authorities for transporting the insur- gent blacks of Virginia to the colony of Sierra Leone . The fol- lowing was the closing paragraph of the letter , and it will be- come more interesting in the light of some subsequent circum ...
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... authority ; but let it be properly understood in order to be rightly appreciated , and it will be found that the United States under his Administration , and that of his successor , have received injuries more deleterious , insults more ...
... authority ; but let it be properly understood in order to be rightly appreciated , and it will be found that the United States under his Administration , and that of his successor , have received injuries more deleterious , insults more ...
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... authority , and disposition to preserve intact the established organs and powers of civil government . It had been one of its cardinal , avowed theories as a party , that the federal Executive should not only be retained in complete ...
... authority , and disposition to preserve intact the established organs and powers of civil government . It had been one of its cardinal , avowed theories as a party , that the federal Executive should not only be retained in complete ...
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... authority , but that the idea had struck him . I have reason , however , to think that this resolution was taken in council on Saturday . " On Friday , Livingston had received Ross's motion in the United States Senate , and given copies ...
... authority , but that the idea had struck him . I have reason , however , to think that this resolution was taken in council on Saturday . " On Friday , Livingston had received Ross's motion in the United States Senate , and given copies ...
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Página 454 - But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Página 614 - That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ; but that by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Página 304 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Página 667 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Página 552 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which, by all its dispensations, proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
Página 639 - His mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Página 489 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
Página 338 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Página 78 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Página 425 - ... indeed, (who might say nay) gloomy and hypochondriac minds, inhabitants of diseased bodies, disgusted with the present, and despairing of the future; always counting that the worst will happen, because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern.