Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, 第 1 卷H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 464 頁 |
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... March , 1790 , when he entered on the duties of the Department of State , of which he had been just appointed Secretary . From the aspect of the Memoir , it may be presumed that parts of it , at least , had been written for his own and ...
... March , 1790 , when he entered on the duties of the Department of State , of which he had been just appointed Secretary . From the aspect of the Memoir , it may be presumed that parts of it , at least , had been written for his own and ...
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... March 75 , approved of the proceed- ings of Congress , thanked their delegates , and reappointed the same persons to represent the colony at the meeting to be held . in May and foreseeing the probability that Peyton Randolph , their ...
... March 75 , approved of the proceed- ings of Congress , thanked their delegates , and reappointed the same persons to represent the colony at the meeting to be held . in May and foreseeing the probability that Peyton Randolph , their ...
第 31 頁
... March 1 , '81 , and thus closing the obligation . Our delegation had been renewed for the ensuing year , commencing August 11 ; but the new government was now organized ; a meeting of the legislature was to be held in Oc- tober , and I ...
... March 1 , '81 , and thus closing the obligation . Our delegation had been renewed for the ensuing year , commencing August 11 ; but the new government was now organized ; a meeting of the legislature was to be held in Oc- tober , and I ...
第 43 頁
... and seeing how far they would favour us , either secretly or openly . His appointment had been by the Committee of foreign correspondence , March , 1776 . that the labouring oar was really at home , where THOMAS JEFFERSON . 43.
... and seeing how far they would favour us , either secretly or openly . His appointment had been by the Committee of foreign correspondence , March , 1776 . that the labouring oar was really at home , where THOMAS JEFFERSON . 43.
第 54 頁
... March , and , on my arrival in London , we agreed on a very summary form of treaty , proposing an exchange of citizenship for our citizens , our ships , and our productions generally , except as to office . On my presentation , as usual ...
... March , and , on my arrival in London , we agreed on a very summary form of treaty , proposing an exchange of citizenship for our citizens , our ships , and our productions generally , except as to office . On my presentation , as usual ...
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第 23 頁 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
第 20 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 21 頁 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
第 17 頁 - ... that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies...
第 429 頁 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
第 22 頁 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
第 22 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...
第 20 頁 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
第 18 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
第 19 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.