Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph1829 |
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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 , 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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... France , Luzerne , offered me a passage in the Romulus frigate , which I accepted ; but she was then lying a few miles below Baltimore , blocked up in the ice . I remained , therefore , a month in Philadelphia , looking over the papers ...
... France , Luzerne , offered me a passage in the Romulus frigate , which I accepted ; but she was then lying a few miles below Baltimore , blocked up in the ice . I remained , therefore , a month in Philadelphia , looking over the papers ...
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Page 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...
Page 119 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 21 - 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...
Page 292 - I consider the class of artificers as the panders of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned.
Page 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.
Page 21 - At this very time, too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Page 432 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Page 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 and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...