Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph1829 |
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... accept any appointment on that side of the water ? You know the circumstances which led me from retirement , step by step , and from one nomination to another , up to the present . My object is a return to the same retirement . Whenever ...
... accept any appointment on that side of the water ? You know the circumstances which led me from retirement , step by step , and from one nomination to another , up to the present . My object is a return to the same retirement . Whenever ...
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... accept its bread from him who will give it . Its resources out of the kingdom are not known . Without doubt , England will give money to produce and to feed the fire which should consume this country ; but it is not probable she will ...
... accept its bread from him who will give it . Its resources out of the kingdom are not known . Without doubt , England will give money to produce and to feed the fire which should consume this country ; but it is not probable she will ...
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... accept this private assurance that a proper person shall be appointed in due form to reside with you , as soon as we shall know the result of your deliberations with Colonel Humphreys , whom I beg leave to present to your notice ; add ...
... accept this private assurance that a proper person shall be appointed in due form to reside with you , as soon as we shall know the result of your deliberations with Colonel Humphreys , whom I beg leave to present to your notice ; add ...
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... accept- ing any equivalent for the posts . I have the honour to be , with great respect and esteem , Dear Sir , Your most obedient and most humble servant , TH . JEFFERSON . SIR , TO GOVERNOR HANCOCK . New York , August 24 , 1790 . The ...
... accept- ing any equivalent for the posts . I have the honour to be , with great respect and esteem , Dear Sir , Your most obedient and most humble servant , TH . JEFFERSON . SIR , TO GOVERNOR HANCOCK . New York , August 24 , 1790 . The ...
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... accept of a just and general peace , on which nothing will be asked of them but their peace . The crops of wheat in the United States are rather abun- dant , and the quality good . Those of tobacco are not pro- mising as yet . I have ...
... accept of a just and general peace , on which nothing will be asked of them but their peace . The crops of wheat in the United States are rather abun- dant , and the quality good . Those of tobacco are not pro- mising as yet . I have ...
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Seite 131 - 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.
Seite 298 - But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Seite 298 - We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Seite 298 - Some 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. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading :...
Seite 521 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they...
Seite 391 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Seite 298 - ... Some 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. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading;...
Seite 287 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Seite 332 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Seite 232 - And indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?