The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen3Derby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... taken from Houdon's bust . Present me affectionately to Mr. Eppes , and be assured of my tenderest love . TH . JEFFERSON . To MARIA JEFFERSON EPPES . WASHINGTON , May 1 , 1802 . MY DEAR MARIA : I received yesterday yours of April 21 ...
... taken from Houdon's bust . Present me affectionately to Mr. Eppes , and be assured of my tenderest love . TH . JEFFERSON . To MARIA JEFFERSON EPPES . WASHINGTON , May 1 , 1802 . MY DEAR MARIA : I received yesterday yours of April 21 ...
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... taken place , ' but if we should assume this to be a sincere ground of action , it would only have put our country in the posture of plundering a weak neighbor to prevent a more dangerous neighbor from plundering it - doing a moral ...
... taken place , ' but if we should assume this to be a sincere ground of action , it would only have put our country in the posture of plundering a weak neighbor to prevent a more dangerous neighbor from plundering it - doing a moral ...
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... taken to guard you against the injuries and arts of interested individuals , I now will give you a copy of a law , of our great council the Congress , forbidding individuals to buy lands from you , or to settle or hunt on your lands ...
... taken to guard you against the injuries and arts of interested individuals , I now will give you a copy of a law , of our great council the Congress , forbidding individuals to buy lands from you , or to settle or hunt on your lands ...
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... taken them . But what has become of Anne ? I thought I had her promise to write once a week , at least the words " all's well . " It is now time for you to let me know when you expect to be able to set out for Washington , and whether ...
... taken them . But what has become of Anne ? I thought I had her promise to write once a week , at least the words " all's well . " It is now time for you to let me know when you expect to be able to set out for Washington , and whether ...
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... taken for getting into a different line of business , that it will be a great sacri- fice on your part , and presents from the season and other circumstances serious difficulties . But some men are born for the public . Nature , by ...
... taken for getting into a different line of business , that it will be a great sacri- fice on your part , and presents from the season and other circumstances serious difficulties . But some men are born for the public . Nature , by ...
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Página 606 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 640 - Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness •"vl oppression. ?o!ne men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Página 606 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Página 482 - I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Página 68 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Página 296 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Página 152 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said State, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass...
Página 631 - ... without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Página 124 - I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with his providence, and our riper years with his wisdom and power...
Página 49 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.