Life of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections from the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivalled Private Correspondence. By B. L. RaynerLilly, Wait, Colman, & Holden, 1834 - 431 頁 |
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... remain on us long , will be made heavier and heavier , till our rights shall revive , or expire , in a convulsion . ” Many of us now see the truth of this prophecy- many of the present and of the coming generation may see and feel it ...
... remain on us long , will be made heavier and heavier , till our rights shall revive , or expire , in a convulsion . ” Many of us now see the truth of this prophecy- many of the present and of the coming generation may see and feel it ...
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... remain on us long , will be made heavier and heavier , till our rights shall revive , or expire , in a convulsion . ' Many of us now see the truth of this prophecy many of the present and of the coming generation may see and feel it ...
... remain on us long , will be made heavier and heavier , till our rights shall revive , or expire , in a convulsion . ' Many of us now see the truth of this prophecy many of the present and of the coming generation may see and feel it ...
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... remains to be considered . The chain of causes were now bringing about the grand result , so confi- dently predicted by Mr Jefferson . It would hardly seem credible at the present day , that a resolution for the appointment of a ...
... remains to be considered . The chain of causes were now bringing about the grand result , so confi- dently predicted by Mr Jefferson . It would hardly seem credible at the present day , that a resolution for the appointment of a ...
第 57 頁
... remains to be considered . The chain of causes were now bringing about the grand result , so confi- dently predicted by Mr Jefferson . It would hardly seem credible at the present day , that a resolution for the appointment of a ...
... remains to be considered . The chain of causes were now bringing about the grand result , so confi- dently predicted by Mr Jefferson . It would hardly seem credible at the present day , that a resolution for the appointment of a ...
第 67 頁
... remain at his post . ' He feared , ' says the latter , ' that Mr Nicholas , whose mind was not yet up to the mark of the times , would undertake the answer , and therefore press- ed me to prepare it . ' The import of this celebrated ...
... remain at his post . ' He feared , ' says the latter , ' that Mr Nicholas , whose mind was not yet up to the mark of the times , would undertake the answer , and therefore press- ed me to prepare it . ' The import of this celebrated ...
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第 64 頁 - 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 on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
第 305 頁 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
第 62 頁 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
第 xix 頁 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
第 133 頁 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
第 237 頁 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
第 79 頁 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, (if ever he had a chosen people,) whose breasts He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise, might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
第 309 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: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
第 96 頁 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
第 97 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...