Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Band 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... March 3 , 1804 . DEAR SIR , Although it is long since I received your favor of October the 27th , yet I have not bad leisure sooner to acknowledge it . In the middle and southern States , as great an union of sentiment has now taken ...
... March 3 , 1804 . DEAR SIR , Although it is long since I received your favor of October the 27th , yet I have not bad leisure sooner to acknowledge it . In the middle and southern States , as great an union of sentiment has now taken ...
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... March 29 , 1805 . DEAR SIR , Your favor of the 17th found me on a short visit to this place , and I observe in it with great pleasure a continuance of you approbation of the course we are pursuing , and particularly the satisfaction you ...
... March 29 , 1805 . DEAR SIR , Your favor of the 17th found me on a short visit to this place , and I observe in it with great pleasure a continuance of you approbation of the course we are pursuing , and particularly the satisfaction you ...
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... March 2 , 1806 . GENTLEMEN , I have received the favor of your letter of February the 2nd , and read with thankfulness its obliging expressions respecting myself . I regret that the object of a letter from persons whom I so much esteem ...
... March 2 , 1806 . GENTLEMEN , I have received the favor of your letter of February the 2nd , and read with thankfulness its obliging expressions respecting myself . I regret that the object of a letter from persons whom I so much esteem ...
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... March 22 , 1806 . I thank you , my good Sir , cordially , for your letter of the 12th , which however I did not receive till the 20th . It is a proof of sincerity , which I value above all things ; as , between those who practise it ...
... March 22 , 1806 . I thank you , my good Sir , cordially , for your letter of the 12th , which however I did not receive till the 20th . It is a proof of sincerity , which I value above all things ; as , between those who practise it ...
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... March 24 , 1806 . DEAR SIR , A last effort at friendly settlement with Spain is proposed to be made at Paris , and under the auspices of France . For this purpose , General Armstrong and Mr. Bowdoin ( both now at Paris ) have been ...
... March 24 , 1806 . DEAR SIR , A last effort at friendly settlement with Spain is proposed to be made at Paris , and under the auspices of France . For this purpose , General Armstrong and Mr. Bowdoin ( both now at Paris ) have been ...
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Seite 266 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Seite 385 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Seite 298 - I think it might be. But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
Seite 355 - Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war ; and its independence, which is our second interest, (and especially its independence of England,) can be secured without it...
Seite 323 - I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of one only God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.
Seite 203 - I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Seite 258 - We have experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations : that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.
Seite 418 - But I cannot describe the wonder and mortification with which the table conversations filled me. Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government, was evidently the favorite sentiment.
Seite 257 - You tell me I am quoted by those who wish to continue our dependence on England for manufactures. There was a time when I might have been so quoted with more candor, but within the thirty years which have since elapsed, how are circumstances changed!