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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... four other members , whom I do not recollect , and myself , agreeing that we must boldly take an unequivocal stand in the line with Massachusetts , determined to meet and consult on the proper measures , in the council chamber , for the ...
... four other members , whom I do not recollect , and myself , agreeing that we must boldly take an unequivocal stand in the line with Massachusetts , determined to meet and consult on the proper measures , in the council chamber , for the ...
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... four paragraphs and half of the preceding one . We ap- proved and reported it to Congress , who accepted it . Con- gress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to Mr. Dickinson , and of their great desire not to go too fast for any ...
... four paragraphs and half of the preceding one . We ap- proved and reported it to Congress , who accepted it . Con- gress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to Mr. Dickinson , and of their great desire not to go too fast for any ...
第 13 頁
... four days ago , must have satisfied every one of this point : That the people wait for us to lead the way : That they are in favour of the measure , though the instruc- tions given by some of their representatives are not : That the ...
... four days ago , must have satisfied every one of this point : That the people wait for us to lead the way : That they are in favour of the measure , though the instruc- tions given by some of their representatives are not : That the ...
第 29 頁
... four larger , four smaller , and four middle sized colonies . That the four largest would contain more than half the inhabitants of the confederating states , and therefore would govern the others as they THOMAS JEFFERSON . 29.
... four larger , four smaller , and four middle sized colonies . That the four largest would contain more than half the inhabitants of the confederating states , and therefore would govern the others as they THOMAS JEFFERSON . 29.
第 30 頁
... four , to govern them as they please ? I invert the question , and ask , shall two millions of people put it in the power of one million , to govern them as they please ? It is pretended , too , that the smaller colonies will be in ...
... four , to govern them as they please ? I invert the question , and ask , shall two millions of people put it in the power of one million , to govern them as they please ? It is pretended , too , that the smaller colonies will be in ...
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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.