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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... purpose be to gratify a liberal curiosity , or to indulge in sentiments of patriotic pride . But the life of Mr. Jefferson is so intimately connected with the history of his country , that a brief notice of the polity and institutions ...
... purpose be to gratify a liberal curiosity , or to indulge in sentiments of patriotic pride . But the life of Mr. Jefferson is so intimately connected with the history of his country , that a brief notice of the polity and institutions ...
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... purpose , and not a few of the largest estates were deeply in debt to the Scotch or English merchants , who carried on the whole commerce of the country . Nor was this system of credit more eagerly sought by the improvident planter than ...
... purpose , and not a few of the largest estates were deeply in debt to the Scotch or English merchants , who carried on the whole commerce of the country . Nor was this system of credit more eagerly sought by the improvident planter than ...
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... purpose of being annexed to the land , and of transmitting an undivided inheritance to the heir and lastly , in 1705 , a law was passed to take away from the courts the power of defeating entails , as had been the practice in the colony ...
... purpose of being annexed to the land , and of transmitting an undivided inheritance to the heir and lastly , in 1705 , a law was passed to take away from the courts the power of defeating entails , as had been the practice in the colony ...
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... purpose of purchasing up the improvident grant made by Charles the Second to two court favourites . They also complained of the high wages of the members of assembly , and the high fees to other public officers ; all indicating that the ...
... purpose of purchasing up the improvident grant made by Charles the Second to two court favourites . They also complained of the high wages of the members of assembly , and the high fees to other public officers ; all indicating that the ...
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... purpose . Well , as I was saying , my poor watch had lost her speech . I should not have cared much for this , but something worse attended it ; the subtle particles of the water with which the case was filled , had , by their penetra ...
... purpose . Well , as I was saying , my poor watch had lost her speech . I should not have cared much for this , but something worse attended it ; the subtle particles of the water with which the case was filled , had , by their penetra ...
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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.