The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... yard and that by the most unaccountable Inattention the Lewis & safeguard gallies have withdrawn up Chickahominy instead of James River . TO MAJOR - GENERAL BARON STEUBEN V. S. A. IN 1781 ] 19 THOMAS JEFFERSON . To Benjamin Harrison ...
... yard and that by the most unaccountable Inattention the Lewis & safeguard gallies have withdrawn up Chickahominy instead of James River . TO MAJOR - GENERAL BARON STEUBEN V. S. A. IN 1781 ] 19 THOMAS JEFFERSON . To Benjamin Harrison ...
Halaman 22
... yard as were mov- able had been carried some miles higher up the river . Two small gallies also retired up the river . Whether by this either the stores or gallies were saved is yet unknown . I am just informed from a private hand that ...
... yard as were mov- able had been carried some miles higher up the river . Two small gallies also retired up the river . Whether by this either the stores or gallies were saved is yet unknown . I am just informed from a private hand that ...
Halaman 39
... yard on Chickahominy . I desired him to send a good Batteau Builder to Colo Davies to superintend and direct a number of hands whom he would imme- diately put under him for building Batteaux for the River above the Falls , and that he ...
... yard on Chickahominy . I desired him to send a good Batteau Builder to Colo Davies to superintend and direct a number of hands whom he would imme- diately put under him for building Batteaux for the River above the Falls , and that he ...
Halaman 76
... ( yard ) est de trois pieds anglois , & répond par consequent a environ 34 pouces I ligne & demie . L'estimation n'a pas besoin ici d'une plus grande précision . Dans la traduction des noms propres des lieux , des villes , des rivieres ...
... ( yard ) est de trois pieds anglois , & répond par consequent a environ 34 pouces I ligne & demie . L'estimation n'a pas besoin ici d'une plus grande précision . Dans la traduction des noms propres des lieux , des villes , des rivieres ...
Halaman 90
... yards , and up Mattapony to within two miles of Frazer's ferry , where it becomes 2 fathom deep , and holds that about five miles . Pamunkey is then capable of navigation for loaded flats to Brock- man's bridge , fifty miles above ...
... yards , and up Mattapony to within two miles of Frazer's ferry , where it becomes 2 fathom deep , and holds that about five miles . Pamunkey is then capable of navigation for loaded flats to Brock- man's bridge , fifty miles above ...
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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.