The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 |
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... EXCELLENCY PATRICK HENRY . ALBEMARLE , March 27 , 1779 . SIR , A report prevailing here , that in consequence of some powers from Congress , the Governor and Council have it in con- templation to remove the Convention troops , * either ...
... EXCELLENCY PATRICK HENRY . ALBEMARLE , March 27 , 1779 . SIR , A report prevailing here , that in consequence of some powers from Congress , the Governor and Council have it in con- templation to remove the Convention troops , * either ...
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... Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant , TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . WILLIAMSBURG , June 23 , 1779 . SIR , I have the pleasure to enclose you the particulars of Colonel Clarke's success against St. Vincennes , as ...
... Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant , TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . WILLIAMSBURG , June 23 , 1779 . SIR , I have the pleasure to enclose you the particulars of Colonel Clarke's success against St. Vincennes , as ...
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... . A small army from Pittsburg , conducted with spirit , may easily take Detroit , and put an end to the Indian war . Those Indians TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . WILLIAMSBURG , July 17 224 JEFFERSON'S WORKS .
... . A small army from Pittsburg , conducted with spirit , may easily take Detroit , and put an end to the Indian war . Those Indians TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . WILLIAMSBURG , July 17 224 JEFFERSON'S WORKS .
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Thomas Jefferson Henry Augustine Washington. TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . WILLIAMSBURG , July 17 , 1789 . 7 SIR , -I some time ago , enclosed to you a printed copy of an order of Council , by which Governor Hamilton was to be ...
Thomas Jefferson Henry Augustine Washington. TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . WILLIAMSBURG , July 17 , 1789 . 7 SIR , -I some time ago , enclosed to you a printed copy of an order of Council , by which Governor Hamilton was to be ...
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... Excellency on this occasion , by asking of you information on this point . There is no other per- son , whose decision will so authoritatively decide this doubt in the public mind , and none with which I am disposed so implicitly to ...
... Excellency on this occasion , by asking of you information on this point . There is no other per- son , whose decision will so authoritatively decide this doubt in the public mind , and none with which I am disposed so implicitly to ...
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第 21 頁 - 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.
第 23 頁 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
第 183 頁 - 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.
第 27 頁 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
第 24 頁 - ... 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...
第 45 頁 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
第 19 頁 - A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that...
第 25 頁 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the kings of Great Britain, and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted beticeen us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and finally, we do assert...
第 142 頁 - Still less let it be proposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
第 22 頁 - 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. He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies [and ships of war] without the consent of our legislatures.