The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... treaty - Cornwallis ' escape impossible . To Washington , October 28th 51 Congratulations on Cornwallis ' surrender . To Horatio Gates , December 14th 51 Justice to Gates - Future plans . 1782 . To James Madison , March 24th . 52 Rights ...
... treaty - Cornwallis ' escape impossible . To Washington , October 28th 51 Congratulations on Cornwallis ' surrender . To Horatio Gates , December 14th 51 Justice to Gates - Future plans . 1782 . To James Madison , March 24th . 52 Rights ...
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... treaty - Amendment of Constitution . Report of Committee on Unfinished Business , Decem- ber • Report on Definitive Treaty , December 16th To the Governor of Virginia , December 17th Ratification of treaty - Letters from foreign ...
... treaty - Amendment of Constitution . Report of Committee on Unfinished Business , Decem- ber • Report on Definitive Treaty , December 16th To the Governor of Virginia , December 17th Ratification of treaty - Letters from foreign ...
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... Treaty , January 2d . Resolution on Definitive Treaty , January 14th . Ratification of Definitive Treaty , January 14th . Draft for Proclamation Announcing Ratification of Definitive Treaty , January 14th To Martha Jefferson , January ...
... Treaty , January 2d . Resolution on Definitive Treaty , January 14th . Ratification of Definitive Treaty , January 14th . Draft for Proclamation Announcing Ratification of Definitive Treaty , January 14th To Martha Jefferson , January ...
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... treaty - Foreign news - Estimates . PAGE 407 4II Report on Reduction of Civil List , March 5th . 415 Instructions ... Treaties , March · Report of Government for the Western Territory , March 22d Report on Cession of Western Territory ...
... treaty - Foreign news - Estimates . PAGE 407 4II Report on Reduction of Civil List , March 5th . 415 Instructions ... Treaties , March · Report of Government for the Western Territory , March 22d Report on Cession of Western Territory ...
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... Treaties - Unfinished business - Loan - office debt - Impost . To the Governor of Virginia , May 7th 489 Ratification of treaties . Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary , May 7th 489 To James Monroe , May 21st • 493 Humphrey's ...
... Treaties - Unfinished business - Loan - office debt - Impost . To the Governor of Virginia , May 7th 489 Ratification of treaties . Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary , May 7th 489 To James Monroe , May 21st • 493 Humphrey's ...
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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...