The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... hope the temporary inconveniences which may result by possi- bility will not deprive the State of the benefit of it . You mention in your Letter a Purpose of coming here shortly , let me take the liberty of entreating you to suffer the ...
... hope the temporary inconveniences which may result by possi- bility will not deprive the State of the benefit of it . You mention in your Letter a Purpose of coming here shortly , let me take the liberty of entreating you to suffer the ...
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... hope held up in your letter of the 23d is a further proof . The Northern States are safe : their independence has been established by the joint efforts of the whole . It is proved as far as testimony can prove anything that our Enemies ...
... hope held up in your letter of the 23d is a further proof . The Northern States are safe : their independence has been established by the joint efforts of the whole . It is proved as far as testimony can prove anything that our Enemies ...
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... hope will be very particularly attended to by the adjacent Counties . No Intelligence from Portsmouth gives us reason to believe that any regular forces have been sent on this expedition ; so that we trust that it is less formidable ...
... hope will be very particularly attended to by the adjacent Counties . No Intelligence from Portsmouth gives us reason to believe that any regular forces have been sent on this expedition ; so that we trust that it is less formidable ...
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... Westward the most necessary Instruments which we suppose to be a good Time piece and a transit Instrument and hope it will be 1781 ] 15 THOMAS JEFFERSON . To the President of Pennsylvania, April 17th Pennsylvania-Virginia boundary.
... Westward the most necessary Instruments which we suppose to be a good Time piece and a transit Instrument and hope it will be 1781 ] 15 THOMAS JEFFERSON . To the President of Pennsylvania, April 17th Pennsylvania-Virginia boundary.
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... hope will result equally to the benefit of yours as of our State , and which if success- ful will give us future quiet in our Western quarter . I beg you to be assured that Colo Broadhead has been altogether misinformed as to any ...
... hope will result equally to the benefit of yours as of our State , and which if success- ful will give us future quiet in our Western quarter . I beg you to be assured that Colo Broadhead has been altogether misinformed as to any ...
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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 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 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 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 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
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 475 - Be it ordained, by the United States, in Congress assembled, that the said Territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district ; subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
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...