The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... United States , April . Motion on Steuben , April 13th . • Notes on the Permanent Seat of Congress , April , 13th Resolutions for the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia , April 13th Resolve on Continental Congress , April 14th 446 ...
... United States , April . Motion on Steuben , April 13th . • Notes on the Permanent Seat of Congress , April , 13th Resolutions for the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia , April 13th Resolve on Continental Congress , April 14th 446 ...
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... 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 engaged in saving their families and Property ...
... 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 engaged in saving their families and Property ...
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... United States , and will , whenever they shall have oppor- tunity , aid or advise the measures of the public Enemy , which persons , in the critical situation of this Commonwealth , it is indispensably necessary to punish for their ...
... United States , and will , whenever they shall have oppor- tunity , aid or advise the measures of the public Enemy , which persons , in the critical situation of this Commonwealth , it is indispensably necessary to punish for their ...
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... United States ; and when occasion serves , aid or advise the Operations of the Enemy , that in those Cases you apprehend such Persons , & send them in safe Custody to the Jail of this County reporting to the Executive the facts and ...
... United States ; and when occasion serves , aid or advise the Operations of the Enemy , that in those Cases you apprehend such Persons , & send them in safe Custody to the Jail of this County reporting to the Executive the facts and ...
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... United States south of Mason and Dixon's line . In 1781 the French ministry directed their American agent to gather certain information concerning the several States then forming the American union , for the use of the home government ...
... United States south of Mason and Dixon's line . In 1781 the French ministry directed their American agent to gather certain information concerning the several States then forming the American union , for the use of the home government ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...