Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 464 halaman |
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... France and Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power , which would one day certainly strip them of all their American possessions : That it was more likely they should form a connection with the British court , who , if they ...
... France and Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power , which would one day certainly strip them of all their American possessions : That it was more likely they should form a connection with the British court , who , if they ...
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... France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it will be much more formidable with the addition of Great Britain ; and will therefore see it their interest to prevent a coalition ; but should they refuse , we ...
... France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it will be much more formidable with the addition of Great Britain ; and will therefore see it their interest to prevent a coalition ; but should they refuse , we ...
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... France six months sooner , as , besides opening her ports for the vent of our last year's produce , she might have marched an army into Germany , and prevented the petty princes there from selling their unhappy subjects to subdue us ...
... France six months sooner , as , besides opening her ports for the vent of our last year's produce , she might have marched an army into Germany , and prevented the petty princes there from selling their unhappy subjects to subdue us ...
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... France , and an architect of Lyons had proposed a plan of a well con- trived edifice , on the principle of solitary confinement . I pro- cured a copy , and as it was too large for our purposes , I drew one on a scale less extensive ...
... France , and an architect of Lyons had proposed a plan of a well con- trived edifice , on the principle of solitary confinement . I pro- cured a copy , and as it was too large for our purposes , I drew one on a scale less extensive ...
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... France , as a Commissioner , to nego ciate treaties of alliance and commerce with that government . Silas Deane , then in France , acting as * agent for procuring military stores , was joined with us in commission . But such was the ...
... France , as a Commissioner , to nego ciate treaties of alliance and commerce with that government . Silas Deane , then in France , acting as * agent for procuring military stores , was joined with us in commission . But such was the ...
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Halaman 23 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Halaman 20 - 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.
Halaman 21 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Halaman 17 - ... that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies...
Halaman 429 - 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.
Halaman 22 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Halaman 22 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Halaman 20 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Halaman 18 - 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Halaman 19 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.