Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1Macmillan, 1926 - 588 pages |
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... French Revolution he saw nothing ; the profound movements ' were concealed from his gaze ' . Whether Jefferson was naturally a liar is not quite clear to Mr Oliver ; but a timid disposition - so we are in- formed ' led him constantly ...
... French Revolution he saw nothing ; the profound movements ' were concealed from his gaze ' . Whether Jefferson was naturally a liar is not quite clear to Mr Oliver ; but a timid disposition - so we are in- formed ' led him constantly ...
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... the cost of expelling the French from Canada and the Mississippi region . For these ser- vices the Colonies must be called upon to show their gratitude , and it was announced that in the following [ 39 ] Student of Law.
... the cost of expelling the French from Canada and the Mississippi region . For these ser- vices the Colonies must be called upon to show their gratitude , and it was announced that in the following [ 39 ] Student of Law.
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... French and Indians in the newly conquered ter- ritories . After a war , however victorious , taxes are never popu- lar . The people who pay the piper are seldom grateful to those who called the tune . The American colonies had ...
... French and Indians in the newly conquered ter- ritories . After a war , however victorious , taxes are never popu- lar . The people who pay the piper are seldom grateful to those who called the tune . The American colonies had ...
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Francis Wrigley Hirst. victories over the French , and therefore all the more sensitive . Many Whigs who had disapproved of the Stamp Act and the Tea duties now said that government must be supported , that the British Empire must at any ...
Francis Wrigley Hirst. victories over the French , and therefore all the more sensitive . Many Whigs who had disapproved of the Stamp Act and the Tea duties now said that government must be supported , that the British Empire must at any ...
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... French Revolution ; it was to him the miracle that makes dry bones men , the power destined in time to heal the sorrows of the world . " - - Those who are familiar with Jefferson's character and career will be surprised that a Virginian ...
... French Revolution ; it was to him the miracle that makes dry bones men , the power destined in time to heal the sorrows of the world . " - - Those who are familiar with Jefferson's character and career will be surprised that a Virginian ...
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Page 379 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? 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.
Page 194 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 571 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, toothers later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Page 378 - 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.
Page 119 - 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.
Page 208 - ... 4. That it be -proposed, though not indispensably required, that if war should hereafter arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance...
Page 572 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Page 355 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 76 - Still less, let it be proposed, that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 140 - Virginia, do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened 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.