The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... suppose one half of the Enemy's force in the United States to be to the Southward . Georgia and South Carolina have been long theirs and North Carolina however dis- posed convulsed by the ravages of two Armies her citizens are too much ...
... suppose one half of the Enemy's force in the United States to be to the Southward . Georgia and South Carolina have been long theirs and North Carolina however dis- posed convulsed by the ravages of two Armies her citizens are too much ...
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... suppose not to be very good , but they are unfortunately what we are obliged to have recourse to : the 200 stand from Annapolis for which I gave him an order are said to be very fine . The defence at Hunter's and the public Work at ...
... suppose not to be very good , but they are unfortunately what we are obliged to have recourse to : the 200 stand from Annapolis for which I gave him an order are said to be very fine . The defence at Hunter's and the public Work at ...
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... 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.
... 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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... suppose they cannot anywhere spare so great an army for the operations of the field . Were it possible for this circumstance to justify in your Ex- cellency a determination to lend us your personal aid , it is evident from the universal ...
... suppose they cannot anywhere spare so great an army for the operations of the field . Were it possible for this circumstance to justify in your Ex- cellency a determination to lend us your personal aid , it is evident from the universal ...
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... suppose some people on the Western waters who are ambitious to be Gov- ernors & c . will urge a separation by authority of Con- gress but the bulk of the people Westward are already thrown into great ferment by the report of what 1782 ...
... suppose some people on the Western waters who are ambitious to be Gov- ernors & c . will urge a separation by authority of Con- gress but the bulk of the people Westward are already thrown into great ferment by the report of what 1782 ...
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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.