The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, 第 2 卷James Herring, James Barton Longacre Rice, Rutter & Company, 1835 |
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... immediately embarked for America , where he was enthusias- tically received , and immediately elected a member of congress . Dr. FRANKLIN served on many of the most arduous of the com- mittees of that body , particularly as a member of ...
... immediately embarked for America , where he was enthusias- tically received , and immediately elected a member of congress . Dr. FRANKLIN served on many of the most arduous of the com- mittees of that body , particularly as a member of ...
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... immediately followed it , had filled up the measure of insult and oppression . At this crisis , not content with his labors , which were constant as a member of the legislature , he wrote and published " A Summary View of the Rights of ...
... immediately followed it , had filled up the measure of insult and oppression . At this crisis , not content with his labors , which were constant as a member of the legislature , he wrote and published " A Summary View of the Rights of ...
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... immediately elected , and in the month of July sailed for France , where he arrived on the 6th of August . He remained in Europe till the 23d of November , 1789 , visiting , during that period , Holland , the northern parts of Italy ...
... immediately elected , and in the month of July sailed for France , where he arrived on the 6th of August . He remained in Europe till the 23d of November , 1789 , visiting , during that period , Holland , the northern parts of Italy ...
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... immediately noticed and repelled . Mr. JEFFERSON , While secretary of state , directed his attention particularly to secure to the inhabitants of the western country every advantage for their trade ; but it had , notwithstanding , been ...
... immediately noticed and repelled . Mr. JEFFERSON , While secretary of state , directed his attention particularly to secure to the inhabitants of the western country every advantage for their trade ; but it had , notwithstanding , been ...
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... the business called for by - the day . " His habits were so exact , that in a cabinet abounding with papers , each one was so labelled and arranged as to be immediately found . After his retirement 15 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... the business called for by - the day . " His habits were so exact , that in a cabinet abounding with papers , each one was so labelled and arranged as to be immediately found . After his retirement 15 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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第 8 頁 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
第 6 頁 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
第 6 頁 - ... short of despotism, since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers ; that the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy...
第 5 頁 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
第 8 頁 - ... 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.
第 6 頁 - We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver!
第 13 頁 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
第 9 頁 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and...
第 1 頁 - And that an exact inventory be taken of all such cannon and stores in order that they may be safely returned when the restoration of the former harmony between great Britain and these colonies so ardently wished for by the latter shall render it prudent and consistent with the overruling law of self preservation.
第 5 頁 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...