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 Seiten |
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... America ' - Effect of this work in England --- Re published by the Whigs in Parliament --- Bill of At- tainder commenced against the author -- Political doctrines of this work form the text of the Revolution ; inserted at length remarks ...
... America ' - Effect of this work in England --- Re published by the Whigs in Parliament --- Bill of At- tainder commenced against the author -- Political doctrines of this work form the text of the Revolution ; inserted at length remarks ...
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... America-- How viewed by him . Extracts from his letters to America . Movements in the U. S. for forming a Constitution -- Agency of Mr. Jefferson . The National Convention meets -- Diversity of opinion . His v ews consulted-- Advice to ...
... America-- How viewed by him . Extracts from his letters to America . Movements in the U. S. for forming a Constitution -- Agency of Mr. Jefferson . The National Convention meets -- Diversity of opinion . His v ews consulted-- Advice to ...
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... America , but of revolutionary Europe , and of the general amelioration of associated man throughout the world . The Revolution itself was but an inchoate movement , Amer- ica alone considered ; a fortiori , it was but the first chapter ...
... America , but of revolutionary Europe , and of the general amelioration of associated man throughout the world . The Revolution itself was but an inchoate movement , Amer- ica alone considered ; a fortiori , it was but the first chapter ...
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... America , was consid- ered by him as demanding attention , even after so long an interval of silence . He was not in public life at the time this proceeding was instituted , and consequently had not the power to raise his voice against ...
... America , was consid- ered by him as demanding attention , even after so long an interval of silence . He was not in public life at the time this proceeding was instituted , and consequently had not the power to raise his voice against ...
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... America . The minds of these bold statesmen were a perfect unison ; and the concurrence of such minds , upon such an occasion , could scarcely fail to educe results , which should mak an era in the history of our nation . Nor did it so ...
... America . The minds of these bold statesmen were a perfect unison ; and the concurrence of such minds , upon such an occasion , could scarcely fail to educe results , which should mak an era in the history of our nation . Nor did it so ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 394 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.