The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... Reasons for declining . • 48 To Edmund Randolph , September 16th 49 • Peace commission - Necessary attendance at Assembly- Final leave of public life - British treaty - Cornwallis ' escape impossible . Congratulations on Cornwallis ...
... Reasons for declining . • 48 To Edmund Randolph , September 16th 49 • Peace commission - Necessary attendance at Assembly- Final leave of public life - British treaty - Cornwallis ' escape impossible . Congratulations on Cornwallis ...
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... Reasons for not sailing - Lodgings . To James Madison , May 7th 317 Impost - Opinion of members of Assembly - New State constitution - Short - Madison and Miss Floyd . To James Madison , June 1st 319 Henry's attitude towards impost ...
... Reasons for not sailing - Lodgings . To James Madison , May 7th 317 Impost - Opinion of members of Assembly - New State constitution - Short - Madison and Miss Floyd . To James Madison , June 1st 319 Henry's attitude towards impost ...
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... reason to believe they came here to sleep ) our Affairs will Assume a very disagreeable Aspect . The want of Arms and Military stores cannot be compensated by numbers of Militia as that of regular soldiers may . Very considerable debts ...
... reason to believe they came here to sleep ) our Affairs will Assume a very disagreeable Aspect . The want of Arms and Military stores cannot be compensated by numbers of Militia as that of regular soldiers may . Very considerable debts ...
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... reason to believe that any regular forces have been sent on this expedition ; so that we trust that it is less formidable than some representations make it . The worst is that a Country vulnerable in every Point is open to insult and ...
... reason to believe that any regular forces have been sent on this expedition ; so that we trust that it is less formidable than some representations make it . The worst is that a Country vulnerable in every Point is open to insult and ...
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... reason to put your Arms into the hands of those not exposed , because on the Enemy's coming into the exposed parts of the Country , the Militia of the neighbourhood will desert , carry off their Arms and perhaps suffer them to be taken ...
... reason to put your Arms into the hands of those not exposed , because on the Enemy's coming into the exposed parts of the Country , the Militia of the neighbourhood will desert , carry off their Arms and perhaps suffer them to be taken ...
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Página 140 - 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.
Página 140 - 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.
Página 250 - 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.
Página 208 - 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.
Página 98 - 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...
Página 238 - 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.
Página 98 - 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...
Página 251 - 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...
Página 389 - ... 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...
Página 373 - 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.