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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第 74 頁
... nation ; their efforts in our favour have hitherto been ineffectual . What then remains to be done ? That we commit our injuries to the even - handed justice of that Being who doth no wrong , earnestly beseech- ing him to illuminate the ...
... nation ; their efforts in our favour have hitherto been ineffectual . What then remains to be done ? That we commit our injuries to the even - handed justice of that Being who doth no wrong , earnestly beseech- ing him to illuminate the ...
第 81 頁
... nation to war against them . We have not raised armies , with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain , and establishing independent states . fight not for glory , or for conquest . We exhibit to mankind the remarkable ...
... nation to war against them . We have not raised armies , with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain , and establishing independent states . fight not for glory , or for conquest . We exhibit to mankind the remarkable ...
第 88 頁
... nation upon earth , or than on no nation . But I am one of those , too , who , rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us , assumed by the British Parliament , and which late experi- ence has shown they will so cruelly ...
... nation upon earth , or than on no nation . But I am one of those , too , who , rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us , assumed by the British Parliament , and which late experi- ence has shown they will so cruelly ...
第 116 頁
... wisdom of his administration in the highest office of the nation , I need say nothing - they have spoken , and will for ever speak for themselves . " At the session of the General Assembly , in May 116 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... wisdom of his administration in the highest office of the nation , I need say nothing - they have spoken , and will for ever speak for themselves . " At the session of the General Assembly , in May 116 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
第 117 頁
... nation , that arising from excessive emigration appears to be the most visionary . The rule then of perpetual ... nations . The committee having made such important provisions for the equal distribution of property , next ...
... nation , that arising from excessive emigration appears to be the most visionary . The rule then of perpetual ... nations . The committee having made such important provisions for the equal distribution of property , next ...
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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.