The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, 第 1 卷C. Knight, 1837 - 4 頁 |
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... Virginia , while a colony , as well as of the manners and pursuits of its inhabitants , will not only shed light on his character , but also make us better ac- quainted with the sources and tendencies of some of his prin- cipal acts ...
... Virginia , while a colony , as well as of the manners and pursuits of its inhabitants , will not only shed light on his character , but also make us better ac- quainted with the sources and tendencies of some of his prin- cipal acts ...
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... Virginia has been somewhat greater than that of the slaves in the proportion of 63 per cent . to 60 , and that this comparative gain seems to be gradually increasing . As Eastern Virginia is everywhere intersected by navi- gable rivers ...
... Virginia has been somewhat greater than that of the slaves in the proportion of 63 per cent . to 60 , and that this comparative gain seems to be gradually increasing . As Eastern Virginia is everywhere intersected by navi- gable rivers ...
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... Virginia has furnished , may be appealed to for a confirmation of this view ; and many living illustra- tions will readily present themselves to all who have a personal know- ledge of the southern states . and the vices of the other are ...
... Virginia has furnished , may be appealed to for a confirmation of this view ; and many living illustra- tions will readily present themselves to all who have a personal know- ledge of the southern states . and the vices of the other are ...
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... Virginia . The whole colony was divided into parishes- commonly about two in a county - in each of which was a glebe and parsonage house for the minister , who also received 16,000 pounds of tobacco a year from the public treasury ...
... Virginia . The whole colony was divided into parishes- commonly about two in a county - in each of which was a glebe and parsonage house for the minister , who also received 16,000 pounds of tobacco a year from the public treasury ...
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... Virginia as well as in England ; yet , by far the larger party of the aristocracy of the colony sided with the Whigs in all the disputes with the crown , or its colonial representative , the Governor . Indeed , the spirit of resistance ...
... Virginia as well as in England ; yet , by far the larger party of the aristocracy of the colony sided with the Whigs in all the disputes with the crown , or its colonial representative , the Governor . Indeed , the spirit of resistance ...
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第 241 頁 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
第 611 頁 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
第 611 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 609 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
第 32 頁 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
第 125 頁 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
第 610 頁 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 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.
第 87 頁 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
第 259 頁 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.