Jefferson's Letters: Selections from the Private and Political Correspondence, Telling the Story of American Independence and the Founding of the American GovernmentHale, 1939 - 374 Seiten |
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... America . 1. As to the degeneracy of the man of Europe transplanted to America , it is no part of Monsieur de Buffon's sys- tem . He goes , indeed , within one step of it , but he stops there . The Abbé Raynal alone has taken that step ...
... America . 1. As to the degeneracy of the man of Europe transplanted to America , it is no part of Monsieur de Buffon's sys- tem . He goes , indeed , within one step of it , but he stops there . The Abbé Raynal alone has taken that step ...
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... America , as no picture of what their ancestors were three hundred years ago . It is in North America we are to seek their original character . And I am safe in affirming , that the proofs of genius given by the Indians of North America ...
... America , as no picture of what their ancestors were three hundred years ago . It is in North America we are to seek their original character . And I am safe in affirming , that the proofs of genius given by the Indians of North America ...
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... America , that these ideas prevail very generally in Europe . At a large table where I dined the other day , a gentleman from Switzerland expressed his apprehensions for the fate of Dr. Franklin , as he said he had been informed , that ...
... America , that these ideas prevail very generally in Europe . At a large table where I dined the other day , a gentleman from Switzerland expressed his apprehensions for the fate of Dr. Franklin , as he said he had been informed , that ...
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