Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Band 4Gray and Bowen, 1830 |
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... Europe ! How mighty this battle of lions and tigers ? With what sensations should the common herd of cattle look on it ? With no partialities certainly . If they can so far worry one another as to destroy their power of tyrannizing the ...
... Europe ! How mighty this battle of lions and tigers ? With what sensations should the common herd of cattle look on it ? With no partialities certainly . If they can so far worry one another as to destroy their power of tyrannizing the ...
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... Europe , accordingly come here . Those who can labor do well , for the most part . Of the learned class of emi- grants , a small portion find employments analogous to their talents . But many fail , and return to complete their course ...
... Europe , accordingly come here . Those who can labor do well , for the most part . Of the learned class of emi- grants , a small portion find employments analogous to their talents . But many fail , and return to complete their course ...
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... Europe . The kind offices we receive from that government are more sensibly felt , as such , than they would be , if ... European market , have obliged me to appeal once more to my country for a justification . I have no fear but that I ...
... Europe . The kind offices we receive from that government are more sensibly felt , as such , than they would be , if ... European market , have obliged me to appeal once more to my country for a justification . I have no fear but that I ...
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... Europe , surrounded by the immense resour- ces of the nations there , and the greater wickedness of their courts , even the limits which nature imposes on their enterprises are scarcely sensible . It is impossible that France and ...
... Europe , surrounded by the immense resour- ces of the nations there , and the greater wickedness of their courts , even the limits which nature imposes on their enterprises are scarcely sensible . It is impossible that France and ...
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... Europe . Habit , however , prevents these from affecting us more than the smaller changes of Europe affect the European . But he is greatly affected by ours . 2. Our sky is always clear ; that of Europe always cloudy . Hence a greater ...
... Europe . Habit , however , prevents these from affecting us more than the smaller changes of Europe affect the European . But he is greatly affected by ours . 2. Our sky is always clear ; that of Europe always cloudy . Hence a greater ...
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Seite 227 - The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society.
Seite 381 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass, and points the course which we are to steer thr6ugh the ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with...
Seite 128 - 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 441 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Seite 236 - was fine ; his stature exactly what one would wish ; his deportment easy, erect, and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback.
Seite 236 - His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man.
Seite 441 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Seite 290 - 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.
Seite 525 - ... but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States...
Seite 324 - A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.