The life of Thomas Jefferson, 112. izdaja ,Količina 1New Library Press.Net, 1858 |
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Stran xvi
... proposed Instructions— Their Fate Their Novel Positions , and Extraordinary Character - Jefferson placed in a Bill of Attainder - Instructions adopted by the Convention - Meeting of Congress- The Virginia Committees of Safety ...
... proposed Instructions— Their Fate Their Novel Positions , and Extraordinary Character - Jefferson placed in a Bill of Attainder - Instructions adopted by the Convention - Meeting of Congress- The Virginia Committees of Safety ...
Stran xviii
... proposed for Dictator - Wirt's Exculpation of him - How the Project was crushed - Jefferson's View of it - Meeting of the Law Revisers - Their General Plan - Allotment of their Parts - Meeting of the General Assembly in 1777 - Parties ...
... proposed for Dictator - Wirt's Exculpation of him - How the Project was crushed - Jefferson's View of it - Meeting of the Law Revisers - Their General Plan - Allotment of their Parts - Meeting of the General Assembly in 1777 - Parties ...
Stran xx
... Proposed Inquiry supported by his Friends - Dictator Project again relinquished from fear Jefferson then openly declines a Reelection - Votes of his Friends still required to prevent his Reelection - His Movements after retreating ...
... Proposed Inquiry supported by his Friends - Dictator Project again relinquished from fear Jefferson then openly declines a Reelection - Votes of his Friends still required to prevent his Reelection - His Movements after retreating ...
Stran xxi
... proposed Remedy for American Overtrading - Views on Annexation " -A Rumble of the Earthquake - John Ledyard - Jefferson sent for by Mr. Adams - Letter to Martha - Journey to London - Negotiations with Portugal and Barbary States - Offer ...
... proposed Remedy for American Overtrading - Views on Annexation " -A Rumble of the Earthquake - John Ledyard - Jefferson sent for by Mr. Adams - Letter to Martha - Journey to London - Negotiations with Portugal and Barbary States - Offer ...
Stran 5
... propose to enter upon the question whether the Cavalier or Puritan blood predominated among the early lowland aristocracy of Virginia . It will not proba- bly be disputed by any that this class were generally decided loyalists ...
... propose to enter upon the question whether the Cavalier or Puritan blood predominated among the early lowland aristocracy of Virginia . It will not proba- bly be disputed by any that this class were generally decided loyalists ...
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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.