The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3G.P.Putnam and sons, 1894 |
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... equal to ours : for their own honour they must confess this as they broke twice & ran like sheep ' till supported by fresh troops . An inferiority in number obliged our Force to with- draw about 12 miles upwards ' till more militia ...
... equal to ours : for their own honour they must confess this as they broke twice & ran like sheep ' till supported by fresh troops . An inferiority in number obliged our Force to with- draw about 12 miles upwards ' till more militia ...
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... equal footing thought proper to burn the warehouses & Tobo . at Manchester & retire to Warwick where they did the same . Ill armed & untried militia who never before saw the face of an enemy have at times during the course of this war ...
... equal footing thought proper to burn the warehouses & Tobo . at Manchester & retire to Warwick where they did the same . Ill armed & untried militia who never before saw the face of an enemy have at times during the course of this war ...
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... equal to the equipment of a respectable Navy perhaps nothing better can be devized than Gallies constructed on plans ap- proved by experience ; But an Asylum for these Gallies seems as necessary as the Gallies themselves , during the ...
... equal to the equipment of a respectable Navy perhaps nothing better can be devized than Gallies constructed on plans ap- proved by experience ; But an Asylum for these Gallies seems as necessary as the Gallies themselves , during the ...
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... equal Terms from this State , which under the Act of Assembly of October 1776 , the Executive are not authorized to engage . I cannot but add that I think he will be a valuable Acquisition and such a one as if lost will not easily be ...
... equal Terms from this State , which under the Act of Assembly of October 1776 , the Executive are not authorized to engage . I cannot but add that I think he will be a valuable Acquisition and such a one as if lost will not easily be ...
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... equal to whatever is not im- possible . I cannot undertake to foresee and obviate the difficulties which lie in the way of such a resolu- tion : The whole subject is before you of which I see only detatched parts ; and your judgment ...
... equal to whatever is not im- possible . I cannot undertake to foresee and obviate the difficulties which lie in the way of such a resolu- tion : The whole subject is before you of which I see only detatched parts ; and your judgment ...
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Halaman 156 - 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 156 - 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 266 - 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 224 - 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 110 - 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 254 - 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 250 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Halaman 267 - 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 431 - ... 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 268 - Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.