Omitted Chapters of History Disclosed in the Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph: Governor of Virginia; First Attorney-general United States, Secretary of StateG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 401 páginas |
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Página 160 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...
Página 199 - The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Página 255 - ... timber for ship-building, tar or rosin, copper in sheets, sails, hemp, and cordage, and generally whatever may serve directly to the equipment of vessels, unwrought iron and fir planks only excepted...
Página 287 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Página 169 - that all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Página 133 - I am a sort of mongrel between the State and the US; called an officer of some rank under the latter, and yet thrust out to get a livelihood in the former, — perhaps in a petty mayor's or county court.
Página 62 - Commonwealth, in appointing me one of the deputies to a convention proposed to be held in the city of Philadelphia in May next, for the purpose of revising the federal constitution...
Página 32 - I will tell you plainly that a certain set of aristocrats, for we have such monsters here, finding that their execrable system cannot be reared on such foundations, have to this time kept us at bay on the first line, which declares all men to be born equally free and independent.
Página 85 - The President of the United States, would be an officer elected by the people for four years. The King of Great Britain is a perpetual and hereditary prince. The one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace. The person of the other is sacred and inviolable. The one would have a qualified negative upon the acts of the Legislative body. The other has an absolute negative. The one would have a right to command the military and naval forces of the nation.
Página 306 - July, agreeably to your request, and you are at full liberty to publish without reserve any and every private and confidential letter I ever wrote to you ; nay, more, every word I ever uttered to you or in your hearing, from whence you can derive any advantage in your vindication.