The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen2J. B. Lippincott, 1871 |
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... direct assertion that in the Smith letter he did refer to the doctrines imputed to Mr. Adams in the first letter to him ! And it will be further remarked that in the last one , he does not withdraw the mental application . He remains ...
... direct assertion that in the Smith letter he did refer to the doctrines imputed to Mr. Adams in the first letter to him ! And it will be further remarked that in the last one , he does not withdraw the mental application . He remains ...
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... direct misstatements , he has sometimes so presented and grouped the facts as to convey totally erroneous impressions . The facts on which these assertions were put forth will , in several instances , necessarily appear in these volumes ...
... direct misstatements , he has sometimes so presented and grouped the facts as to convey totally erroneous impressions . The facts on which these assertions were put forth will , in several instances , necessarily appear in these volumes ...
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... direct testi- mony and most direct information on the points in controversy between himself and his life - long and those who were to be his posthumous accusers ? The next proper inquiry , it would seem , is , did Mr. Jefferson , in ...
... direct testi- mony and most direct information on the points in controversy between himself and his life - long and those who were to be his posthumous accusers ? The next proper inquiry , it would seem , is , did Mr. Jefferson , in ...
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... direct it may choose Withdrawn such a distance from the eye of their constituents , and these so dispersed as to be inaccessible to public information , and particularly to that of the conduct of their own representatives , they will ...
... direct it may choose Withdrawn such a distance from the eye of their constituents , and these so dispersed as to be inaccessible to public information , and particularly to that of the conduct of their own representatives , they will ...
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... direct tax in the South , and an excise in the North . Still , he said , it would be paid by the people . Finding him decided , I avoided entering into argument with him on those points . " On the 1st of June , the Secretary of State ...
... direct tax in the South , and an excise in the North . Still , he said , it would be paid by the people . Finding him decided , I avoided entering into argument with him on those points . " On the 1st of June , the Secretary of State ...
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Página 632 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 449 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Página 631 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its Republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 632 - Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the hundredth and thousandth generation...
Página 632 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens: a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Página 632 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Página 449 - Resolved, 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 compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Página 631 - A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye...
Página 631 - During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore...
Página 632 - ... freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.