The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 - United States |
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... soon attached to me , and made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school ; and from his conversation I got my first views of the expansion of science , and of the system of things in which we are placed . Fortu- nately , the ...
... soon attached to me , and made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school ; and from his conversation I got my first views of the expansion of science , and of the system of things in which we are placed . Fortu- nately , the ...
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... soon proved that they could bring their minds to rights , on the first summons of their attention . But the King's Council , which acted as another house of legislature , held their places at will , and were in most humble obedience to ...
... soon proved that they could bring their minds to rights , on the first summons of their attention . But the King's Council , which acted as another house of legislature , held their places at will , and were in most humble obedience to ...
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... soon removed , as there seemed no probability that the enemy would make either of these the seat of this summer's war : That it would be vain to wait either weeks or months for per- fect unanimity , since it was impossible that all men ...
... soon removed , as there seemed no probability that the enemy would make either of these the seat of this summer's war : That it would be vain to wait either weeks or months for per- fect unanimity , since it was impossible that all men ...
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... soon as the state of the colony admitted , it was divided into parishes , in each of which was established a min- ister of the Anglican church , endowed with a fixed salary , in to- bacco , a glebe house and land with the other ...
... soon as the state of the colony admitted , it was divided into parishes , in each of which was established a min- ister of the Anglican church , endowed with a fixed salary , in to- bacco , a glebe house and land with the other ...
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... soon after . Mr. Lee excused himself on the same ground , and died , indeed , in a short time . The other two gentlemen , therefore , and myself divided the work among us . The common law and statutes to the 4 James I. ( when our ...
... soon after . Mr. Lee excused himself on the same ground , and died , indeed , in a short time . The other two gentlemen , therefore , and myself divided the work among us . The common law and statutes to the 4 James I. ( when our ...
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Page 21 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 23 - CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. 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. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 181 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 27 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 140 - Still less let it be proposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. 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 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Page 25 - 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.
Page 20 - Britain is a history of [unremitting] injuries and usurpations, [among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, but all have] in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world [for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.] He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Page 25 - 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 beticeen us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and finally, we do assert...
Page 22 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 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.