The Life of Thomas Jefferson, 第 1 卷J. B. Lippincott, 1871 |
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第 xvi 頁
... proposed Instructions— Their Fate Their Novel Positions , and Extraordinary Character - Jefferson placed in a Bill of Attainder - Instructions adopted by the Convention - Meeting of Congress- The Virginia Committees of Safety ...
... proposed Instructions— Their Fate Their Novel Positions , and Extraordinary Character - Jefferson placed in a Bill of Attainder - Instructions adopted by the Convention - Meeting of Congress- The Virginia Committees of Safety ...
第 xviii 頁
... proposed for Dictator -- Wirt's Exculpation of him - How the Project was crushed - Jefferson's View of it - Meeting of the Law Revisers - Their General Plan - Allotment of their Parts - Meeting of the General Assembly in 1777 - Parties ...
... proposed for Dictator -- Wirt's Exculpation of him - How the Project was crushed - Jefferson's View of it - Meeting of the Law Revisers - Their General Plan - Allotment of their Parts - Meeting of the General Assembly in 1777 - Parties ...
第 xx 頁
... Proposed Inquiry supported by his Friends - Dictator Project again relinquished from fear - Jefferson then openly declines a Reelection - Votes of his Friends still required to prevent his Reelection - His Movements after retreating ...
... Proposed Inquiry supported by his Friends - Dictator Project again relinquished from fear - Jefferson then openly declines a Reelection - Votes of his Friends still required to prevent his Reelection - His Movements after retreating ...
第 xxi 頁
... proposed Remedy for American Overtrading - Views Annexation " -A Rumble of the Earthquake - John Ledyard - Jefferson sent for by Mr. Adams - Letter to Martha - Journey to London - Negotiations with Portugal and Barbary States - Offer of ...
... proposed Remedy for American Overtrading - Views Annexation " -A Rumble of the Earthquake - John Ledyard - Jefferson sent for by Mr. Adams - Letter to Martha - Journey to London - Negotiations with Portugal and Barbary States - Offer of ...
第 33 頁
... proposals seem to have been clogged with the condition . that he must be absent for two or three years in foreign travel ... proposed route . Why he gave this up , does not appear . Whether for this , or because her preferences lay in a ...
... proposals seem to have been clogged with the condition . that he must be absent for two or three years in foreign travel ... proposed route . Why he gave this up , does not appear . Whether for this , or because her preferences lay in a ...
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第 101 頁 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
第 464 頁 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
第 174 頁 - ... he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world...
第 427 頁 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable"! citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds.
第 95 頁 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa; yet our repeated attempts to effect this by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative...
第 280 頁 - We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear ; When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...
第 220 頁 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
第 170 頁 - Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
第 280 頁 - Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts the tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day.
第 609 頁 - ... Potomac ; and it was thought that by giving it to Philadelphia for ten years, and to Georgetown permanently afterwards, this might, as an anodyne, calm in some degree the ferment which might be excited by the other measure ] alone. So two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive,) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point. In doing this, the influence he had established over the eastern members, with the...