Jefferson's Letters: Selections from the Private and Political Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, Telling the Story of American Independence and the Founding of the American GovernmentWisconsin Hale, 1986 - 374 Seiten |
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... circumstances , it is best for you to do a dis- honorable thing , however slightly so it may appear to you . Whenever you are to do a thing , though it can never be known but to yourself , ask yourself how you would act were all the ...
... circumstances , it is best for you to do a dis- honorable thing , however slightly so it may appear to you . Whenever you are to do a thing , though it can never be known but to yourself , ask yourself how you would act were all the ...
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... circumstances . There is , however , but one circumstance which could engage my acquiescence in another election ; to wit , such a division about a successor , as might bring in a monarchist . But that circumstance is impossible . Our ...
... circumstances . There is , however , but one circumstance which could engage my acquiescence in another election ; to wit , such a division about a successor , as might bring in a monarchist . But that circumstance is impossible . Our ...
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... circumstances , institutions must advance also , and keep pace with the times . 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 ...
... circumstances , institutions must advance also , and keep pace with the times . 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 ...
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