The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... object ? I hope your health of body continues firm . Your works show that of your mind . The habits of exercise which your calling has given to both , will tend long to preserve them . The sedentary character of my public occupations ...
... object ? I hope your health of body continues firm . Your works show that of your mind . The habits of exercise which your calling has given to both , will tend long to preserve them . The sedentary character of my public occupations ...
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... object of this letter is to inform Mrs. Burwell that a ring , which she left where she washed the morning of leaving Fludd's , is safe and will be delivered to her order or to herself when she passes . I have not seen the President ...
... object of this letter is to inform Mrs. Burwell that a ring , which she left where she washed the morning of leaving Fludd's , is safe and will be delivered to her order or to herself when she passes . I have not seen the President ...
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... object . It appeals to two dead men , and one , ( yourself , ) whom he supposes I cannot get at . I have written him an answer which may perhaps prevent his persevering in the attempt , for the whole face of his letter betrays a ...
... object . It appeals to two dead men , and one , ( yourself , ) whom he supposes I cannot get at . I have written him an answer which may perhaps prevent his persevering in the attempt , for the whole face of his letter betrays a ...
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... object , authorize our entering into correspond- ence with all . Let us then mature our system as far as can be done at present , by ascertaining the length of the second pendu- lum of 45 ° by forming two tables , one of which shall ...
... object , authorize our entering into correspond- ence with all . Let us then mature our system as far as can be done at present , by ascertaining the length of the second pendu- lum of 45 ° by forming two tables , one of which shall ...
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... object is , with their assistance , to place within the reach of our fellow citizens at large a perfect knowledge of the measures , weights and coins of the countries with which they have commercial or friendly inter- and should the ...
... object is , with their assistance , to place within the reach of our fellow citizens at large a perfect knowledge of the measures , weights and coins of the countries with which they have commercial or friendly inter- and should the ...
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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...