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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... interest is not the strongest passion in the human breast . There are difficult points , too , still unsettled ... interest . For while the principal , and interest preceding and subsequent to the war , seem justly due from us , that ...
... interest is not the strongest passion in the human breast . There are difficult points , too , still unsettled ... interest . For while the principal , and interest preceding and subsequent to the war , seem justly due from us , that ...
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... interest ; the debtor replies , that he has not gained it , and that it is a case , where a loss having been incurred , every one tries to shift it from himself . The known bias of the human mind from motives of interest should lessen ...
... interest ; the debtor replies , that he has not gained it , and that it is a case , where a loss having been incurred , every one tries to shift it from himself . The known bias of the human mind from motives of interest should lessen ...
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... interest till the end of thirty - four years , you shall then , forever after , receive an annual interest of fifteen per cent . The money is lent on these conditions , is divided among the people , eaten , drunk , and squandered ...
... interest till the end of thirty - four years , you shall then , forever after , receive an annual interest of fifteen per cent . The money is lent on these conditions , is divided among the people , eaten , drunk , and squandered ...
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Adams America become believe body called character circumstances citizens commerce common Congress consider Constitution DEAR SIR,-I declaration dispositions doubt duty earth endeavor enemy England esteem Europe executive favor fear federalists foreign France Franklin freedom freedom of religion give habeas corpus hand happiness HENRY DEARBORN honor hope idea Indians interest JAMES MADISON January January 11 JOHN ADAMS July June King labor lands letter liberty Lord Cornwallis ment mind MONTICELLO moral nation nature never object observed occasion opinion PARIS party peace perhaps person PHILADELPHIA political POPLAR FOREST possession present President principles probably produce proposed question received religion render republican respect revolution sensible sentiments SIR,-Your society Spain suppose things THOMAS PAINE tion truth United Virginia vote WASHINGTON whole Williamsburg wish write