Letters and Addresses of Thomas JeffersonUnit Book Publishing Company, 1905 - 328 páginas |
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... Europe and quarters of the earth shall not have inscribed any name in the roll of poets . But neither has America produced " one able math- ematician , one man of genius in a single art or a single science . " In war we have produced a ...
... Europe and quarters of the earth shall not have inscribed any name in the roll of poets . But neither has America produced " one able math- ematician , one man of genius in a single art or a single science . " In war we have produced a ...
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... European power , and think there is no protection against them , but from the possession of some force on the sea . Our ... Europe ! It is not necessary for your information , that I should enter into details concerning it . But you are ...
... European power , and think there is no protection against them , but from the possession of some force on the sea . Our ... Europe ! It is not necessary for your information , that I should enter into details concerning it . But you are ...
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... European politeness , as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self , which really render European manners amiable , and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjects it . Here , it seems ...
... European politeness , as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self , which really render European manners amiable , and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjects it . Here , it seems ...
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... European luxury and dissipation , and a contempt for the simplicity of his own country ; he is fascinated with the privileges of the Euro- pean aristocrats , and sees , with abhorrence , the lovely equal- ity which the poor enjoy with ...
... European luxury and dissipation , and a contempt for the simplicity of his own country ; he is fascinated with the privileges of the Euro- pean aristocrats , and sees , with abhorrence , the lovely equal- ity which the poor enjoy with ...
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... Europe for education loses in his knowledge , in his morals , in his health , in hi habits , and in his happiness . I had entertained only doubt on this head before I came to Europe : what I see and hear since I came here , proves more ...
... Europe for education loses in his knowledge , in his morals , in his health , in hi habits , and in his happiness . I had entertained only doubt on this head before I came to Europe : what I see and hear since I came here , proves more ...
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Página 138 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the...
Página 18 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 139 - ... freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 27 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.
Página 133 - States of all powers whatsoever: That they will view this as seizing the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government with...
Página 54 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Página 9 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Página 29 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Página 20 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 20 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...