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, المجلد 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 من الصفحات |
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... Honours to his memory . 474 CHAPTER XXII . 1826 . Failure of the Lottery . Liberality of South Carolina and Louisiana . Mr. Jefferson's Will - Property and Debts . His Descendants . His Character . Appendix . 498 509 THE LIFE OF THOMAS ...
... Honours to his memory . 474 CHAPTER XXII . 1826 . Failure of the Lottery . Liberality of South Carolina and Louisiana . Mr. Jefferson's Will - Property and Debts . His Descendants . His Character . Appendix . 498 509 THE LIFE OF THOMAS ...
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... honour , and most impeded the prosperity of the country . Had the government not firmly resisted and diligently counter- acted the popular sentiment towards France , or had not many of the causes of collision been removed by the British ...
... honour , and most impeded the prosperity of the country . Had the government not firmly resisted and diligently counter- acted the popular sentiment towards France , or had not many of the causes of collision been removed by the British ...
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... honour of the nation did not forbid further ad- vances for its maintenance , he should make another attempt at negotiation . On the policy of this course the cabinet were divided : Mr. Pickering and one of his colleagues thinking that ...
... honour of the nation did not forbid further ad- vances for its maintenance , he should make another attempt at negotiation . On the policy of this course the cabinet were divided : Mr. Pickering and one of his colleagues thinking that ...
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... honour to be , gentlemen , " Your most obedient , " And most humble servant , " TH : JEFFERSON . " " To Messrs . Samuel Magaw , Jonathan Williams , William Burton , and John Bleakley , secretaries of the American Philo- sophical Society ...
... honour to be , gentlemen , " Your most obedient , " And most humble servant , " TH : JEFFERSON . " " To Messrs . Samuel Magaw , Jonathan Williams , William Burton , and John Bleakley , secretaries of the American Philo- sophical Society ...
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... honour and interests of the nation ; he therefore renewed his recommendation to put the country in a state of defence , by providing military stores , and an efficient revenue ; and that , under existing circumstances , he had withdrawn ...
... honour and interests of the nation ; he therefore renewed his recommendation to put the country in a state of defence , by providing military stores , and an efficient revenue ; and that , under existing circumstances , he had withdrawn ...
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الصفحة 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
الصفحة 88 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
الصفحة 389 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
الصفحة 88 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
الصفحة 87 - 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 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
الصفحة 147 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
الصفحة 215 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
الصفحة 101 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed ? This is a painful office ; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.
الصفحة 343 - ... been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.