The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... never a man of mind , is wonderfully jealous on this head . He tells eternally the stories of his younger days to prove his memory , as if memory and reason were the same faculty . No- thing betrays imbecility so much as the being ...
... never a man of mind , is wonderfully jealous on this head . He tells eternally the stories of his younger days to prove his memory , as if memory and reason were the same faculty . No- thing betrays imbecility so much as the being ...
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... never promised to any printer on earth the sum of one thousand dollars , nor any other sum , for certain services performed , or for any services which that express- ion would imply . I have had no accounts with printers but for their ...
... never promised to any printer on earth the sum of one thousand dollars , nor any other sum , for certain services performed , or for any services which that express- ion would imply . I have had no accounts with printers but for their ...
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... never had a moment's doubt , and have ever valued it as a precious treasure . The question indeed . whether I knew or approved of General Wilkinson's endeavors to prevent the restoration of the right of deposit at New Orleans , could never ...
... never had a moment's doubt , and have ever valued it as a precious treasure . The question indeed . whether I knew or approved of General Wilkinson's endeavors to prevent the restoration of the right of deposit at New Orleans , could never ...
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... never again be laid aside ; and no- thing more salutary for us has ever happened than the British ob- structions to our demands for their manufactures .. Restore free intercourse when they will , their commerce with us will have totally ...
... never again be laid aside ; and no- thing more salutary for us has ever happened than the British ob- structions to our demands for their manufactures .. Restore free intercourse when they will , their commerce with us will have totally ...
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... never did . Hence , I conclude it was the opinion and practice from the first institution of the government . During Arnold's and Cornwallis ' invasion , the council dispersed to their several homes , to take care of their families ...
... never did . Hence , I conclude it was the opinion and practice from the first institution of the government . During Arnold's and Cornwallis ' invasion , the council dispersed to their several homes , to take care of their families ...
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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...