Letters: Selections from the Private and Political Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, Telling the Story of American Independence and the Founding of the American GovernmentE.M. Hale, 1949 - 374 Seiten |
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... experience has nevertheless proved they will be constantly encroaching on , if sub- mitted to them ; that there are also certain fences which experience has proved peculiarly efficacious against wrong , and rarely obstructive of right ...
... experience has nevertheless proved they will be constantly encroaching on , if sub- mitted to them ; that there are also certain fences which experience has proved peculiarly efficacious against wrong , and rarely obstructive of right ...
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... experience has proved it safer , for the mass of individuals com- posing the society , to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent , and to delegate those to which they are not ...
... experience has proved it safer , for the mass of individuals com- posing the society , to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent , and to delegate those to which they are not ...
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... experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book - reading ; and this they would say themselves , were they to rise from the dead . I am cer- tainly not an advocate for frequent and ...
... experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book - reading ; and this they would say themselves , were they to rise from the dead . I am cer- tainly not an advocate for frequent and ...
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