A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas JeffersonD. F. Robinson & Company, 1826 - 426 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 47 筆
第 40 頁
... ministers , who wrought , with perfect success , upon the cupidity or sympathy of European courts , or their jealousy of Britain , and obtained most season- able and necessary succor for our bleeding country . Among these diplomatic ...
... ministers , who wrought , with perfect success , upon the cupidity or sympathy of European courts , or their jealousy of Britain , and obtained most season- able and necessary succor for our bleeding country . Among these diplomatic ...
第 41 頁
... minister to Eng- land , and Jefferson was also honored with a mission to France , in which employments they remained until the adoption of the constitution of the United States . At this important epoch , Adams and Jefferson both ...
... minister to Eng- land , and Jefferson was also honored with a mission to France , in which employments they remained until the adoption of the constitution of the United States . At this important epoch , Adams and Jefferson both ...
第 55 頁
... treaty with Great Britain . In 1785 he was chosen Minister to Great Britain . In 1787 he published at London the Defence of the American Constitution . In October 1787 , at his request , he was ADAMS AND JEFFERSON . 55.
... treaty with Great Britain . In 1785 he was chosen Minister to Great Britain . In 1787 he published at London the Defence of the American Constitution . In October 1787 , at his request , he was ADAMS AND JEFFERSON . 55.
第 57 頁
... minister to France , with Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin , but declined accepting the office , and Arthur Lee was appointed in his place . Between 1777 and 1779 he was employed , conjointly with George Wythe and Edmund Pendleton , on ...
... minister to France , with Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin , but declined accepting the office , and Arthur Lee was appointed in his place . Between 1777 and 1779 he was employed , conjointly with George Wythe and Edmund Pendleton , on ...
第 65 頁
... ministers advocated it ; but the people resisted it — and the people triumphed . Happy will it be for France should they continue to triumph , but fatal to the pow- er of the monarch . Our country is largely indebted to the illustrious ...
... ministers advocated it ; but the people resisted it — and the people triumphed . Happy will it be for France should they continue to triumph , but fatal to the pow- er of the monarch . Our country is largely indebted to the illustrious ...
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第 212 頁 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
第 215 頁 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
第 242 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 101 頁 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
第 396 頁 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
第 424 頁 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
第 262 頁 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
第 2 頁 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
第 230 頁 - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
第 242 頁 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, 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...