The life of Thomas Jefferson, 112. izdaja ,Količina 1New Library Press.Net, 1858 |
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Stran v
... force of precedents throughout nearly the whole range of topics in our nationo - federative system . During the seventeen years he survived his retire- ment from public life , he remained a close observer , and continued to express his ...
... force of precedents throughout nearly the whole range of topics in our nationo - federative system . During the seventeen years he survived his retire- ment from public life , he remained a close observer , and continued to express his ...
Stran xvi
... Force on Williamsburg - The Governor succumbs - Lord North's Conciliatory Proposi- tion Jefferson succeeds Randolph in Congress - Remains to draw up the Answer of Virginia - Its Contents - Final Rupture between Lord Dunmore and the ...
... Force on Williamsburg - The Governor succumbs - Lord North's Conciliatory Proposi- tion Jefferson succeeds Randolph in Congress - Remains to draw up the Answer of Virginia - Its Contents - Final Rupture between Lord Dunmore and the ...
Stran xvi
... Force on Williamsburg - The Governor succumbs - Lord North's Conciliatory Proposi- tion Jefferson succeeds Randolph in Congress - Remains to draw up the Answer of Virginia - Its Contents - Final Rupture between Lord Dunmore and the ...
... Force on Williamsburg - The Governor succumbs - Lord North's Conciliatory Proposi- tion Jefferson succeeds Randolph in Congress - Remains to draw up the Answer of Virginia - Its Contents - Final Rupture between Lord Dunmore and the ...
Stran xx
... Force - Flushed with his Prospects - Pursues Lafayette - Mercer's timely Arrival " The Boy " Escapes - Simcoe dispatched to the Point of Fork - Steuben's Retreat - Tarleton's attempts to seize Governor and Legis- lature - A Detachment ...
... Force - Flushed with his Prospects - Pursues Lafayette - Mercer's timely Arrival " The Boy " Escapes - Simcoe dispatched to the Point of Fork - Steuben's Retreat - Tarleton's attempts to seize Governor and Legis- lature - A Detachment ...
Stran 25
... force of members is given them in a greater or less degree . It may be strengthened by exercise , as may any particular limb of the body . This sense is submitted , indeed , in some degree , to the guidance of reason ; but it is a small ...
... force of members is given them in a greater or less degree . It may be strengthened by exercise , as may any particular limb of the body . This sense is submitted , indeed , in some degree , to the guidance of reason ; but it is a small ...
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Stran 204 - 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 opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities...
Stran 83 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
Stran 204 - ... to suffer the civil Magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Stran 161 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
Stran 159 - 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.
Stran 204 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere, when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to...
Stran 203 - ... 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...
Stran 160 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Stran 77 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa.
Stran 152 - The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence.