Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Band 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... keep the vessel of State as steadily in her course for another four years , my earthly purposes will be accomplished , and I shall be free to enjoy , as you are doing , my family , my farm and my books . That your enjoyments may ...
... keep the vessel of State as steadily in her course for another four years , my earthly purposes will be accomplished , and I shall be free to enjoy , as you are doing , my family , my farm and my books . That your enjoyments may ...
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... under them . They may quit them , indeed , but , in the mean time , all the venal will have become associated with them , and will give them a majority sufficient to keep 1 them in place , and to enable them to eject 16.
... under them . They may quit them , indeed , but , in the mean time , all the venal will have become associated with them , and will give them a majority sufficient to keep 1 them in place , and to enable them to eject 16.
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... keep down all jealousy between us , and to guard our friendship from any disturbance by sentiments of rivalship : and I can say with truth , that one act of Mr. Adams ' life , and one only , ever gave me a moment's personal displeasure ...
... keep down all jealousy between us , and to guard our friendship from any disturbance by sentiments of rivalship : and I can say with truth , that one act of Mr. Adams ' life , and one only , ever gave me a moment's personal displeasure ...
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... the end of this letter . 3. Fully manned for action . Her annual expense in this situation is about eight thousand dollars , as per estimate subjoined . When there is general peace , we should probably keep about six or seven 29.
... the end of this letter . 3. Fully manned for action . Her annual expense in this situation is about eight thousand dollars , as per estimate subjoined . When there is general peace , we should probably keep about six or seven 29.
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... keep about six or seven afloat in the second situation ; their annual expense twelve to fourteen thousand dollars ; the rest all hauled up . When France and England are at war , we should keep , at the utmost , twenty - five in the ...
... keep about six or seven afloat in the second situation ; their annual expense twelve to fourteen thousand dollars ; the rest all hauled up . When France and England are at war , we should keep , at the utmost , twenty - five in the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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!