Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private CorrespondenceA. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 من الصفحات |
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... Jeffer- son . Gerin of the American Union . Sudden dissolution of the Legislature . Jefferson and others rally a private meeting of the members at the Raleigh tavern - Its spirited doings . Influence of the revolutionary proceedings in ...
... Jeffer- son . Gerin of the American Union . Sudden dissolution of the Legislature . Jefferson and others rally a private meeting of the members at the Raleigh tavern - Its spirited doings . Influence of the revolutionary proceedings in ...
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... Jeffer- son , to the Speakers of the other Colonies , enclosing to each a copy of the resolutions ; and left it in charge with their Chairman , Pey- ton Randolph , who was also Speaker of the House , to transmit them by expresses . The ...
... Jeffer- son , to the Speakers of the other Colonies , enclosing to each a copy of the resolutions ; and left it in charge with their Chairman , Pey- ton Randolph , who was also Speaker of the House , to transmit them by expresses . The ...
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... Jeffer- son to supply the vacancy . To have been appointed , young as he was , a substitute of the President of Congress , was an evidence of the extraordinary estimate which was put upon his abilities . Last- ly , having provided for a ...
... Jeffer- son to supply the vacancy . To have been appointed , young as he was , a substitute of the President of Congress , was an evidence of the extraordinary estimate which was put upon his abilities . Last- ly , having provided for a ...
الصفحة 85
... Jeffer- son arrived ; yet an opportunity had been reserved , in anticipation , for impressing the tone of his sentiments upon the most important State - paper that had yet been meditated . On the 24th of June , the committee which had ...
... Jeffer- son arrived ; yet an opportunity had been reserved , in anticipation , for impressing the tone of his sentiments upon the most important State - paper that had yet been meditated . On the 24th of June , the committee which had ...
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... Jeffer- son . It shows the great disparity of opinion which prevailed in that body , and the mutual sacrifices which were constantly required to preserve an unbroken column . and " Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to Mr ...
... Jeffer- son . It shows the great disparity of opinion which prevailed in that body , and the mutual sacrifices which were constantly required to preserve an unbroken column . and " Congress gave a signal proof of their indulgence to Mr ...
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الصفحة 417 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 140 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
الصفحة 38 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
الصفحة 168 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
الصفحة 163 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
الصفحة 117 - 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.
الصفحة 474 - I believe this on the contrary the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
الصفحة 418 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
الصفحة 163 - ... established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
الصفحة 394 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.