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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第 vi 頁
... facts and anecdotes relating to the origin and early stages of the contest with Great Britain . II . Historical circumstances relating to the Con- federation of the States . III . Facts and anecdotes , local and general , preli- minary ...
... facts and anecdotes relating to the origin and early stages of the contest with Great Britain . II . Historical circumstances relating to the Con- federation of the States . III . Facts and anecdotes , local and general , preli- minary ...
第 1 頁
... facts concerning myself , for my own more ready reference , and for the information of my family . The tradition in my father's family was , that their ancestor came to this country from Wales , and from near the moun- tain of Snowdon ...
... facts concerning myself , for my own more ready reference , and for the information of my family . The tradition in my father's family was , that their ancestor came to this country from Wales , and from near the moun- tain of Snowdon ...
第 12 頁
... fact work no delay of any effectual aid from such ally , as , from the advance of the season and dis- tance of our situation , it was impossible we could receive any assistance during this campaign : That it was prudent to fix among ...
... fact work no delay of any effectual aid from such ally , as , from the advance of the season and dis- tance of our situation , it was impossible we could receive any assistance during this campaign : That it was prudent to fix among ...
第 13 頁
... fact which already exists : That , as to the people or parliament of England , we had always been independent of them , their restraints on our trade deriving efficacy from our acquiescence only , and not from any rights they possessed ...
... fact which already exists : That , as to the people or parliament of England , we had always been independent of them , their restraints on our trade deriving efficacy from our acquiescence only , and not from any rights they possessed ...
第 18 頁
... fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest , but all have ] in direct object the establishment of an abso- lute tyranny over these states . To prove this , let facts be submitted to a candid world [ for the truth of which we ...
... fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest , but all have ] in direct object the establishment of an abso- lute tyranny over these states . To prove this , let facts be submitted to a candid world [ for the truth of which we ...
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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.