The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... Europe , the invariable sacrifice of their highest interests to the minor advantages of any individual trade or calling at home , are as immoral in principle as the continuance of them is unwise in practice , after the lessons they have ...
... Europe , the invariable sacrifice of their highest interests to the minor advantages of any individual trade or calling at home , are as immoral in principle as the continuance of them is unwise in practice , after the lessons they have ...
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... Europe may be so poised and counterpoised among themselves , that their own safety may re- quire the presence of all their force at home , leaving the other quarters of the globe in undisturbed tranquillity . When our strength will ...
... Europe may be so poised and counterpoised among themselves , that their own safety may re- quire the presence of all their force at home , leaving the other quarters of the globe in undisturbed tranquillity . When our strength will ...
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... Europe through all the successive effects of the revival of letters , the invention of printing , that of the compass , the enlargement of science , and the revolutionary spirit , religious and civil , generated by that . It presents a ...
... Europe through all the successive effects of the revival of letters , the invention of printing , that of the compass , the enlargement of science , and the revolutionary spirit , religious and civil , generated by that . It presents a ...
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... Europe at once . I enclose you a letter from Dr. Bruff , a mighty good and very ingenious man . His method of manufacturing bullets and shot , has the merit of increasing their specific gravity greatly , ( being made by composition ...
... Europe at once . I enclose you a letter from Dr. Bruff , a mighty good and very ingenious man . His method of manufacturing bullets and shot , has the merit of increasing their specific gravity greatly , ( being made by composition ...
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... Europe , Asia and Africa , and seems to have entered on those of America only to fit them into the same frame , and to draw from them a confirmation of his general theory . He keeps up a perpetual parallel , in all those articles ...
... Europe , Asia and Africa , and seems to have entered on those of America only to fit them into the same frame , and to draw from them a confirmation of his general theory . He keeps up a perpetual parallel , in all those articles ...
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Seite 517 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be...
Seite 531 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Seite 223 - I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Seite 120 - Another of our friends of seventy-six is gone, my dear Sir, another of the co-signers of the Independence of our country. And a better man than Rush could not have left us, more benevolent, more learned, of finer genius, or more honest.
Seite 227 - ... will finally shrink into insignificance even there. This, however, we have no right to meddle with. It suffices for us if the moral and physical condition of our own citizens qualifies them to select the able and good for the direction of their government with a recurrence of elections at such short periods as will enable them to displace an unfaithful servant before the mischief he meditates may be irremediable.
Seite 75 - The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent.
Seite 180 - That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
Seite 86 - that many of your fellows are carried to Virginia, and if you stay till this Rasdall return, you will also be carried away and sold for slaves with the rest.
Seite 531 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Seite 286 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. 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...