Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Band 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... heads rather than their hands , and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation , threaten to make them here , as in Europe , the sinks of voluntary misery . I perceive , however , that I have ...
... heads rather than their hands , and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation , threaten to make them here , as in Europe , the sinks of voluntary misery . I perceive , however , that I have ...
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... heads , and the strongest justification of these in the fewest words possible . The crusade preached against philosophy by the modern disciples of steady habits , induced me to dwell more in shewing its effect with the Indians than the ...
... heads , and the strongest justification of these in the fewest words possible . The crusade preached against philosophy by the modern disciples of steady habits , induced me to dwell more in shewing its effect with the Indians than the ...
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... head quarters ; but not finding him there , and understanding he would be at Colonel Fleming's , ( six miles above Britton's ) he proceeded thither . The enemy had now a detachment at Westham , and sent a deputation from the city of ...
... head quarters ; but not finding him there , and understanding he would be at Colonel Fleming's , ( six miles above Britton's ) he proceeded thither . The enemy had now a detachment at Westham , and sent a deputation from the city of ...
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... heads of these , in writing , were communicated through a mutual friend to Mr. Jefferson , who committed to writing also the heads of justification on each of them . I well remember this paper , and believe the original of it still ...
... heads of these , in writing , were communicated through a mutual friend to Mr. Jefferson , who committed to writing also the heads of justification on each of them . I well remember this paper , and believe the original of it still ...
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... head of a department consults me on those of his department , and where any thing arises too difficult or important to be decided between us , the consultation becomes general . That there is an ostensible cabinet and a concealed one ...
... head of a department consults me on those of his department , and where any thing arises too difficult or important to be decided between us , the consultation becomes general . That there is an ostensible cabinet and a concealed one ...
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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!