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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... happiness , or a passion for whores , de- structive of his health , and , in both cases , learns to consider fidelity to the marriage bed as an ungentlemanly practice , and inconsistent with happiness ; he recollects the voluptuary ...
... happiness , or a passion for whores , de- structive of his health , and , in both cases , learns to consider fidelity to the marriage bed as an ungentlemanly practice , and inconsistent with happiness ; he recollects the voluptuary ...
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... happiness . If anybody thinks that kings , nobles , or priests are good conservators of the public happiness , send him here . It is the best school in the universe to cure him of that folly . He will see here , with his own eyes , that ...
... happiness . If anybody thinks that kings , nobles , or priests are good conservators of the public happiness , send him here . It is the best school in the universe to cure him of that folly . He will see here , with his own eyes , that ...
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... happiness of the two countries . In England , happiness is the lot of the aristocracy only ; and the proportion they bear to the laborers and paupers , you know better than I do . Were I to guess that they are four in every hundred ...
... happiness of the two countries . In England , happiness is the lot of the aristocracy only ; and the proportion they bear to the laborers and paupers , you know better than I do . Were I to guess that they are four in every hundred ...
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Adams America become believe body called character circumstances citizens commerce common Congress consider Constitution DEAR SIR,-I declaration dispositions doubt duty earth endeavor enemy England esteem Europe executive favor fear federalists foreign France Franklin freedom freedom of religion give habeas corpus hand happiness HENRY DEARBORN honor hope idea Indians interest JAMES MADISON January January 11 JOHN JOHN ADAMS July June King labor lands letter liberty Lord Cornwallis ment mind MONTICELLO moral nation nature never object observed occasion opinion PARIS party peace perhaps person PHILADELPHIA political POPLAR FOREST possession present President principles probably produce proposed question received religion render republican respect revolution sensible sentiments SIR,-Your society Spain suppose things THOMAS PAINE tion truth United Virginia vote WASHINGTON whole Williamsburg wish write