The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... . Under such circumstances it is not easy to foretell events , and it is natural for our People to ask if they are to have no help from others . Should any considerable part of the Union be abandoned to 8 [ 1781 THE WRITINGS OF.
... . Under such circumstances it is not easy to foretell events , and it is natural for our People to ask if they are to have no help from others . Should any considerable part of the Union be abandoned to 8 [ 1781 THE WRITINGS OF.
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... nature . I have re- tired to my farm , my family & books from which I think nothing will evermore separate me . A desire to leave public office with a reputation not more blotted than it has deserved will oblige me to emerge at the next ...
... nature . I have re- tired to my farm , my family & books from which I think nothing will evermore separate me . A desire to leave public office with a reputation not more blotted than it has deserved will oblige me to emerge at the next ...
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... nature of a private assumpsit , I suppose it not possible they should be permitted to 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 ...
... nature of a private assumpsit , I suppose it not possible they should be permitted to 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 ...
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... natural history , and there is no expense of package or of safe transportation which I will not gladly reimburse to procure them safely . Elk horns of very 62 [ 1782 THE WRITINGS OF To James Steptoe, November 26th Mammoth bones, etc ...
... natural history , and there is no expense of package or of safe transportation which I will not gladly reimburse to procure them safely . Elk horns of very 62 [ 1782 THE WRITINGS OF To James Steptoe, November 26th Mammoth bones, etc ...
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... nature in the great , & not merely in detail . Descriptions of animals , vege- tables , minerals , or other curious things , notes as to the Indians , information of the country between the Mississippi & waters of the South Sea & c ...
... nature in the great , & not merely in detail . Descriptions of animals , vege- tables , minerals , or other curious things , notes as to the Indians , information of the country between the Mississippi & waters of the South Sea & c ...
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第 140 頁 - 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.
第 140 頁 - 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.
第 250 頁 - 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.
第 208 頁 - 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.
第 98 頁 - 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...
第 238 頁 - 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.
第 98 頁 - 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...
第 251 頁 - 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...
第 389 頁 - ... 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...
第 373 頁 - 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.