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... seemed quite content with the knowledge that so far back as his great - grand- father his ancestors had been respectable people , " in independent and comfortable circumstances . " - Of his own generation there were seven chil- dren ...
... seemed quite content with the knowledge that so far back as his great - grand- father his ancestors had been respectable people , " in independent and comfortable circumstances . " - Of his own generation there were seven chil- dren ...
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... seemed that liberty was more seri- ously threatened by that outrage , under his own eyes , of " five or six well - meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments , ” than by any tax which Parliament could contrive ...
... seemed that liberty was more seri- ously threatened by that outrage , under his own eyes , of " five or six well - meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments , ” than by any tax which Parliament could contrive ...
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... seemed " to favor a more chaste mode of conducting elections , " and he " deter- mined to attempt , by an example , to introduce it . " He failed signally ; " the sentiments and manners of the parent nation " were too much for him . He ...
... seemed " to favor a more chaste mode of conducting elections , " and he " deter- mined to attempt , by an example , to introduce it . " He failed signally ; " the sentiments and manners of the parent nation " were too much for him . He ...
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... seemed about to fall into the hands of the enemy . Could he have foreseen that calamity , his apprehensions might have been changed to despair ; for he writes : - " Our army threatened with an immediate alternative of disbanding or ...
... seemed about to fall into the hands of the enemy . Could he have foreseen that calamity , his apprehensions might have been changed to despair ; for he writes : - " Our army threatened with an immediate alternative of disbanding or ...
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... seemed to love work for its own sake , and he was a striking example of how much virtue there is in steadiness of pursuit . Not that he had at this time any special goal for his ambition . His aim seemed to be simply to do the best he ...
... seemed to love work for its own sake , and he was a striking example of how much virtue there is in steadiness of pursuit . Not that he had at this time any special goal for his ambition . His aim seemed to be simply to do the best he ...
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Page 60 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 66 - ... support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 16 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "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.
Page 44 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 107 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 104 - Religion and humanity had nothing to do with this question. Interest alone is the governing principle with nations. The true question at present is, whether the Southern States shall or shall not be parties to the Union.
Page 66 - Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever...
Page 12 - There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well-meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox. I have neither patience to hear, talk, or think of anything relative to this matter; for I have squabbled and scolded, abused and ridiculed, so long about it to [so] little purpose, that I am without common patience.
Page 104 - They produce the most pernicious effect OH manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country.
Page 67 - In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles : and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.