The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... seen that we should be substan- tially safe were our Citizens Armed , but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State . Under such circumstances it is not easy to foretell events , and it is natural for our People to ask if ...
... seen that we should be substan- tially safe were our Citizens Armed , but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State . Under such circumstances it is not easy to foretell events , and it is natural for our People to ask if ...
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... seen that charter nor been able to get a copy of it in this country . I had thought to have seized the first leisure on my return from the last Assembly to have considered & stated our right and to have communicated to our Delegates or ...
... seen that charter nor been able to get a copy of it in this country . I had thought to have seized the first leisure on my return from the last Assembly to have considered & stated our right and to have communicated to our Delegates or ...
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... seen as high up as the Acansas . It also abounds in herons , cranes , ducks , brant , geese , and swans . Its passage is commanded by a fort established by this state , five miles below the mouth of the Ohio , and ten miles above the ...
... seen as high up as the Acansas . It also abounds in herons , cranes , ducks , brant , geese , and swans . Its passage is commanded by a fort established by this state , five miles below the mouth of the Ohio , and ten miles above the ...
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... seen from its various parts , were called the Apalachian mountains , being in fact the end or termination only of the great ridges passing through the continent . European geographers however extended the name northwardly as far as the ...
... seen from its various parts , were called the Apalachian mountains , being in fact the end or termination only of the great ridges passing through the continent . European geographers however extended the name northwardly as far as the ...
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... seen were some of them of a white as pure as one might expect to find on the surface of the earth : but most of them were varie- gated with red , blue , and purple . None of it has been ever worked . It forms a very large precipice ...
... seen were some of them of a white as pure as one might expect to find on the surface of the earth : but most of them were varie- gated with red , blue , and purple . None of it has been ever worked . It forms a very large precipice ...
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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.