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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... labor for himself who can make another labor for him . This is so true , that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor . And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed ...
... labor for himself who can make another labor for him . This is so true , that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor . And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed ...
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... labor . The spontaneous energies of the earth are a gift of nature , but they require the labor of man to direct their operation . And the ques- tion is so to husband his labor as to turn the greatest quantity of this useful action of ...
... labor . The spontaneous energies of the earth are a gift of nature , but they require the labor of man to direct their operation . And the ques- tion is so to husband his labor as to turn the greatest quantity of this useful action of ...
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... labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly , clothed above mere decency , to labor moderately and raise their families . They are not driven to the ultimate resources of ...
... labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly , clothed above mere decency , to labor moderately and raise their families . They are not driven to the ultimate resources of ...
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