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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Halaman 241
... honor to write me on the 5th of April , never came to hand until the 19th of May , up- wards of a month after the one of the day before . I have hopes of sending the present by a Mr. Jarvis , who went from hence to Holland some time ago ...
... honor to write me on the 5th of April , never came to hand until the 19th of May , up- wards of a month after the one of the day before . I have hopes of sending the present by a Mr. Jarvis , who went from hence to Holland some time ago ...
Halaman 242
... honor to be , with the highest respect , Sir , Yours , & c . TH : JEFFERSON . P. S. July 14. I have thus long waited , day after day , P.S. hoping to hear from Mr. Jarvis , that I might send a cypher with this : but now give up the hope ...
... honor to be , with the highest respect , Sir , Yours , & c . TH : JEFFERSON . P. S. July 14. I have thus long waited , day after day , P.S. hoping to hear from Mr. Jarvis , that I might send a cypher with this : but now give up the hope ...
Halaman 244
... honor of writing before , has not yet been received . It having gone by Dr. Witherspoon to America , which I had left before his return to it , the delay is easily ac- counted for . [ * The remainder of this letter is in cypher , to ...
... honor of writing before , has not yet been received . It having gone by Dr. Witherspoon to America , which I had left before his return to it , the delay is easily ac- counted for . [ * The remainder of this letter is in cypher , to ...
Halaman 248
... honor of attending you , but for a spell of sickness which long induced us to despair of his recovery , and from which he is but re- cently recovered . He comes now , for the purpose of lending the aid of his art to transmit you to ...
... honor of attending you , but for a spell of sickness which long induced us to despair of his recovery , and from which he is but re- cently recovered . He comes now , for the purpose of lending the aid of his art to transmit you to ...
Halaman 249
... honor to be , with the highest respect and esteem , Dear Sir , yours , & c . TH : JEFFERSON . SIR , TO THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA . Paris , July 11 , 1785 . Mr. Houdon's long and desperate illness has retarded , till now , his departure ...
... honor to be , with the highest respect and esteem , Dear Sir , yours , & c . TH : JEFFERSON . SIR , TO THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA . Paris , July 11 , 1785 . Mr. Houdon's long and desperate illness has retarded , till now , his departure ...
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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.