The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... earth and water in animal vessels , may not nature have provided an equivalent operation , by passing the same materials through the pores of calcareous earths and stones ? " In lieu of these , he had printed new pages , omitting this ...
... earth and water in animal vessels , may not nature have provided an equivalent operation , by passing the same materials through the pores of calcareous earths and stones ? " In lieu of these , he had printed new pages , omitting this ...
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... earth . Its current gentle , waters clear , and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids , a single instance only excepted . It is of a mile wide at Fort Pitt . [ 14 ] 500 yards at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway : 1 mile and 25 ...
... earth . Its current gentle , waters clear , and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids , a single instance only excepted . It is of a mile wide at Fort Pitt . [ 14 ] 500 yards at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway : 1 mile and 25 ...
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... earth has been created in time , that the mountains were formed first , that the rivers began to flow afterwards , that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains , and have formed an ocean which ...
... earth has been created in time , that the mountains were formed first , that the rivers began to flow afterwards , that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains , and have formed an ocean which ...
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... earth itself to its centre .'- The height of our mountains has not yet been [ 32 ] estimated with any degree of exactness . The Alleghaney being the great ridge which divides the waters of the Atlantic from those of the Missisipi , its ...
... earth itself to its centre .'- The height of our mountains has not yet been [ 32 ] estimated with any degree of exactness . The Alleghaney being the great ridge which divides the waters of the Atlantic from those of the Missisipi , its ...
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... earth , one above another , which seem to point out that the country there has undergone several changes ; that the sea has , for a succession of ages , occupied the place where dry land now appears ; and that the ground has been ...
... earth , one above another , which seem to point out that the country there has undergone several changes ; that the sea has , for a succession of ages , occupied the place where dry land now appears ; and that the ground has been ...
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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...