The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... tribe , has , by some great convulsion of nature , been heaved to the heights at which we now find shells & other remains of marine animals . The favourers of this opinion do well to suppose the great events on which it rests to have ...
... tribe , has , by some great convulsion of nature , been heaved to the heights at which we now find shells & other remains of marine animals . The favourers of this opinion do well to suppose the great events on which it rests to have ...
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... tribe having visited the governor of [ 70 ] Virginia , during the present revolution , on matters of business , after ... tribes , from one to an- other , he was at length carried over the mountains west of the Missouri to a river which ...
... tribe having visited the governor of [ 70 ] Virginia , during the present revolution , on matters of business , after ... tribes , from one to an- other , he was at length carried over the mountains west of the Missouri to a river which ...
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... tribe . The neighbouring whites , according to their custom , undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way . Col. Cresap , a man in- famous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people , collected a party and ...
... tribe . The neighbouring whites , according to their custom , undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way . Col. Cresap , a man in- famous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people , collected a party and ...
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... tribe , who stood round , silent and solemn spectators of the scene , and the indifference with which they answered my question respecting it , convinced me that it was no unusual custom . I have known men advanced in years , whose ...
... tribe , who stood round , silent and solemn spectators of the scene , and the indifference with which they answered my question respecting it , convinced me that it was no unusual custom . I have known men advanced in years , whose ...
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... tribes of Indians . Of these the Powhatans , the Mannahoacs , and Mona- cans , were the most powerful . Those between the sea - coast and falls of the rivers , were in amity with one another , and attached to the Powhatans as their link ...
... tribes of Indians . Of these the Powhatans , the Mannahoacs , and Mona- cans , were the most powerful . Those between the sea - coast and falls of the rivers , were in amity with one another , and attached to the Powhatans as their link ...
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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...