Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1F. Carr, and Company, 1820 - United States |
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... In May , 1769 , a meeting of the General Assembly was called by the Governor , Lord Botetourt . I had then become a member ; and to that meeting became known the joint resolutions and ad- · dress of the Lords and Commons of 1768-9 , 3.
... In May , 1769 , a meeting of the General Assembly was called by the Governor , Lord Botetourt . I had then become a member ; and to that meeting became known the joint resolutions and ad- · dress of the Lords and Commons of 1768-9 , 3.
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... assemblies of the peo- ple on the 1st of June , to perform the ceremonies of the day , and to address to them discourses suited to the occasion . The people met generally , with anxiety and alarm in their countenances , and the effect ...
... assemblies of the peo- ple on the 1st of June , to perform the ceremonies of the day , and to address to them discourses suited to the occasion . The people met generally , with anxiety and alarm in their countenances , and the effect ...
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... Assembly summoned by Lord Dunmore , to meet on the 1st day of June , 1775. Lord North's conciliatory propositions , as they were called , had been received by the Governor , and furnished the subject for which this assembly was convened ...
... Assembly summoned by Lord Dunmore , to meet on the 1st day of June , 1775. Lord North's conciliatory propositions , as they were called , had been received by the Governor , and furnished the subject for which this assembly was convened ...
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... Assembly on that subject having been approved , I was requested by the committee to prepare this report , which will account for the similarity of feature in the two instruments . On the 15th of May , 1776 , the convention of Virginia ...
... Assembly on that subject having been approved , I was requested by the committee to prepare this report , which will account for the similarity of feature in the two instruments . On the 15th of May , 1776 , the convention of Virginia ...
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... assembly of Pennsylvania was now sitting above stairs , their convention would sit within a few days , the convention of New York was now sitting , and those of the Jerseys and Delaware counties would meet on the Monday following , and ...
... assembly of Pennsylvania was now sitting above stairs , their convention would sit within a few days , the convention of New York was now sitting , and those of the Jerseys and Delaware counties would meet on the Monday following , and ...
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Page 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Page 16 - 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 116 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Page 430 - 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 19 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 40 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Page 429 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance...
Page 92 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.