The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... 61 To James Steptoe , November 26th . 62 Mammoth bones , etc. - Scientific facts concerning western country - Non - recognition of public service . To François Jean , Chevalier de Chastellux , Novem- ber CONTENTS OF VOLUME III . vii.
... 61 To James Steptoe , November 26th . 62 Mammoth bones , etc. - Scientific facts concerning western country - Non - recognition of public service . To François Jean , Chevalier de Chastellux , Novem- ber CONTENTS OF VOLUME III . vii.
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... bones - Definitive treaty - Diplomatic services - Arthur Lee - Condition of Congress - Seat of Con- gress - Western cessions - Boundaries - Trade - Western routes -Council - Chastellux's journal - Books . Draft of Deed of Cession of ...
... bones - Definitive treaty - Diplomatic services - Arthur Lee - Condition of Congress - Seat of Con- gress - Western cessions - Boundaries - Trade - Western routes -Council - Chastellux's journal - Books . Draft of Deed of Cession of ...
Halaman 62
... bones . I should be unfaithful to my own feelings were I not to express to you how much I am obliged by your attention to the request I made you on that subject . A speci- men of each of the several species of bones now to be found is ...
... bones . I should be unfaithful to my own feelings were I not to express to you how much I am obliged by your attention to the request I made you on that subject . A speci- men of each of the several species of bones now to be found is ...
Halaman 63
... bones or their history or on anything else in the Western country will come acceptably to me , because I know you see the works of nature in the great , & not merely in detail . Descriptions of animals , vege- tables , minerals , or ...
... bones or their history or on anything else in the Western country will come acceptably to me , because I know you see the works of nature in the great , & not merely in detail . Descriptions of animals , vege- tables , minerals , or ...
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... Bones 321 Two creeks 21 Kentuckey 44 Long reach 53 Rapids 77 End Long reach 161 Low country 155 Muskingum 25 Buffalo river . 641 Little Kanhaway 12 Wabash 971 Hockhocking 16 Big cave 42 Great Kanhaway 82 Shawanee river 521 Guiandot • 43 ...
... Bones 321 Two creeks 21 Kentuckey 44 Long reach 53 Rapids 77 End Long reach 161 Low country 155 Muskingum 25 Buffalo river . 641 Little Kanhaway 12 Wabash 971 Hockhocking 16 Big cave 42 Great Kanhaway 82 Shawanee river 521 Guiandot • 43 ...
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Halaman 140 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Halaman 140 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it ; I have killed many ; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace ; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Halaman 250 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Halaman 208 - For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Halaman 98 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Halaman 238 - In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Halaman 98 - Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the county of Rockbridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public and commodious passage over a valley which cannot be crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance. The stream passing under it is called Cedar creek. It is a water of James...
Halaman 251 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...
Halaman 389 - ... to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Halaman 373 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.