Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - United States |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 56
Page 53
... Count de Vergennes , it was thought better to leave to legislative regulation , on both sides , such modifications of our commercial intercourse , as would voluntarily flow from amicable dispositions . Without urging , we sounded the ...
... Count de Vergennes , it was thought better to leave to legislative regulation , on both sides , such modifications of our commercial intercourse , as would voluntarily flow from amicable dispositions . Without urging , we sounded the ...
Page 55
... Count De Vergennes had the reputation , with the diplomatic corps , of being wary and slippery , in his diplomatic intercourse ; and so he might be , with those whom he knew to be slippery and double - faced themselves . As he saw that ...
... Count De Vergennes had the reputation , with the diplomatic corps , of being wary and slippery , in his diplomatic intercourse ; and so he might be , with those whom he knew to be slippery and double - faced themselves . As he saw that ...
Page 56
... and the majority , so computed , shall prevail in all questions within the view of this convention . The court of Versailles is proposed , on ac- count of its neighbourhood to the Mediterranean , and because 56 MEMOIRS OF.
... and the majority , so computed , shall prevail in all questions within the view of this convention . The court of Versailles is proposed , on ac- count of its neighbourhood to the Mediterranean , and because 56 MEMOIRS OF.
Page 57
... Count de Ver- gennes on the subject . I had before taken occasion to inform him of what we were proposing , and , therefore , did not think it proper to insinuate any doubt of the fair conduct of his government ; but , stating our ...
... Count de Ver- gennes on the subject . I had before taken occasion to inform him of what we were proposing , and , therefore , did not think it proper to insinuate any doubt of the fair conduct of his government ; but , stating our ...
Page 61
... Count de Vergennes had died a few days before the meeting of the Assembly , and the Count de Montmorin had been named minister of foreign affairs , in his place . Villedeuil succeeded Calonne , as Comptroller General , and Lomenie de ...
... Count de Vergennes had died a few days before the meeting of the Assembly , and the Count de Montmorin had been named minister of foreign affairs , in his place . Villedeuil succeeded Calonne , as Comptroller General , and Lomenie de ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adams Algiers America appointed arms Assembly Barbary treaties bill Britain British CHIG circumstances coin Colonel colonies commerce committee common common law Congress copy Count de Vergennes court DEAR SIR debt declaration dollars duties enclosed enemy England esteem Europe Excellency's Most obedient execution favor foreign France Franklin French friends furnish give Governor hand honor hope humble servant hundred James river JEFFERSON JOHN ADAMS King labour lands legislature letter liberty livres Lord Cornwallis Majesty Massachusetts ment MICHIG militia minister Morocco nations necessary neral object opinion papers Paris Parliament passed person petty treason Peyton Randolph ports Portugal present prisoners proposed proposition punishment reason received render respect sent sentiments shew South Carolina STAPHORST suppose taken thing thought thousand tion tobacco treaty troops United UNIV UNIV vessel Virginia vote Williamsburg wish
Popular passages
Page 6 - 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 4 - 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 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 9 - 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 7 - 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.
Page 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 8 - 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...
Page 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; 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...
Page 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Page 7 - 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...