The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3G.P.Putnam and sons, 1894 |
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Halaman 87
... feet to the degree . This being our comprehension of longitude , that of our latitude , taken between this and Mason and Dixon's line , is 3 ° 13 ′ 42.4 ′′ equal to 223.3 miles , supposing a degree of a great circle to be 69 m 864 f ...
... feet to the degree . This being our comprehension of longitude , that of our latitude , taken between this and Mason and Dixon's line , is 3 ° 13 ′ 42.4 ′′ equal to 223.3 miles , supposing a degree of a great circle to be 69 m 864 f ...
Halaman 88
... feet water to Norfolk . The Strafford , a sixty gun ship , went there , lightening herself to cross the bar at Sowell's point . The Fier Rodrigue , pierced for 64 guns , and carrying 50 , went there without lightening . Craney island ...
... feet water to Norfolk . The Strafford , a sixty gun ship , went there , lightening herself to cross the bar at Sowell's point . The Fier Rodrigue , pierced for 64 guns , and carrying 50 , went there without lightening . Craney island ...
Halaman 89
... feet water to Smithfield , which admits vessels of 20 tons . Chickahominy has at its mouth a bar , on which is only 12 feet water at common flood tide . Vessels passing that , may go 8 [ 5 ] miles up the river ; those of 10 feet draught ...
... feet water to Smithfield , which admits vessels of 20 tons . Chickahominy has at its mouth a bar , on which is only 12 feet water at common flood tide . Vessels passing that , may go 8 [ 5 ] miles up the river ; those of 10 feet draught ...
Halaman 90
... feet water to the falls , which are 13 miles above Alexandria . These falls are 15 miles in length , and of very great descent , and the navigation above them for batteaux and canoes , is so much interrupted as to be little used . 90 ...
... feet water to the falls , which are 13 miles above Alexandria . These falls are 15 miles in length , and of very great descent , and the navigation above them for batteaux and canoes , is so much interrupted as to be little used . 90 ...
Halaman 91
... feet water to the mouth of the Ohio , to which place it is from one and a half to two miles wide , and thence to Kaskaskia from one mile to a mile and a quarter wide . Its cur- rent is so rapid , that it never can be stemmed by the ...
... feet water to the mouth of the Ohio , to which place it is from one and a half to two miles wide , and thence to Kaskaskia from one mile to a mile and a quarter wide . Its cur- rent is so rapid , that it never can be stemmed by the ...
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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.