Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Band 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... He had received a grant of between eleven and twelve thousand acres north of the Ohio , worth , perhaps , a dollar an acre . We have obtained permission of Congress to lowith us . us . a . * cate it in Louisiana . Locations can be 21.
... He had received a grant of between eleven and twelve thousand acres north of the Ohio , worth , perhaps , a dollar an acre . We have obtained permission of Congress to lowith us . us . a . * cate it in Louisiana . Locations can be 21.
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... thousand men , and in peace , two thousand . And when done they avail little ; because all military men agree , that wherever a vessel may pass a fort without tacking under her guns , which is the case at all our seaport towns , she ...
... thousand men , and in peace , two thousand . And when done they avail little ; because all military men agree , that wherever a vessel may pass a fort without tacking under her guns , which is the case at all our seaport towns , she ...
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... thousand dollars ; the rest all hauled up . When France and England are at war , we should keep , at the utmost , twenty - five in the second situation , their annual expense fifty thousand dollars . When we should be at war ourselves ...
... thousand dollars ; the rest all hauled up . When France and England are at war , we should keep , at the utmost , twenty - five in the second situation , their annual expense fifty thousand dollars . When we should be at war ourselves ...
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... thousand , and Baron Steuben , eight hundred , on the south side of the river . January 9. The enemy are still encamped at Westover . January 10. At 1 P. M. they embark : and the wind having shisted a little to the north of west , and ...
... thousand , and Baron Steuben , eight hundred , on the south side of the river . January 9. The enemy are still encamped at Westover . January 10. At 1 P. M. they embark : and the wind having shisted a little to the north of west , and ...
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... thousand men , they advanced again up to Petersburg , and about the last of April , to Manchester . The Governor had remained constantly in and about Richmond , exerting all his powers for collecting militia , and providing such means ...
... thousand men , they advanced again up to Petersburg , and about the last of April , to Manchester . The Governor had remained constantly in and about Richmond , exerting all his powers for collecting militia , and providing such means ...
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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!