The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... remain in quiet at home . This is what I must recommend to you and therefore furnish the Bearers with the Com- missions as you desire . If you find this service considerable you will of course give the Individuals Credit for it as a ...
... remain in quiet at home . This is what I must recommend to you and therefore furnish the Bearers with the Com- missions as you desire . If you find this service considerable you will of course give the Individuals Credit for it as a ...
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... remain questionable whether he shall resume the office . We have it in our power at present to engage Colo Senf , a gentleman emi- nent for his skill as an Engineer , his zeal and activity . But holding the Rank , Command and emoluments ...
... remain questionable whether he shall resume the office . We have it in our power at present to engage Colo Senf , a gentleman emi- nent for his skill as an Engineer , his zeal and activity . But holding the Rank , Command and emoluments ...
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... attachment to their property to remain within the power of the enemy and are then compelled to furnish 44 [ 1781 THE WRITINGS OF To the Speaker of the House of Delegates, May 28th, News from Greene-Enforcement of militia service-Lack.
... attachment to their property to remain within the power of the enemy and are then compelled to furnish 44 [ 1781 THE WRITINGS OF To the Speaker of the House of Delegates, May 28th, News from Greene-Enforcement of militia service-Lack.
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... remain in the state till a later period in the present year , than is consistent with an acceptance of what has been offered me . Declining higher objects therefore my only one must be to show that suggestion and fact are different ...
... remain in the state till a later period in the present year , than is consistent with an acceptance of what has been offered me . Declining higher objects therefore my only one must be to show that suggestion and fact are different ...
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... remain so . The purpose of the present trouble I give your Excel- lency is to ask whether , should any suit be brought against me , I may take the liberty of remitting the defence wholly to the public whose concern alone it is ? I had ...
... remain so . The purpose of the present trouble I give your Excel- lency is to ask whether , should any suit be brought against me , I may take the liberty of remitting the defence wholly to the public whose concern alone it is ? I had ...
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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...