Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volumen3H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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... ment of the receipt of any of mine since that of August the 11th , 1788. Since that period , I have written to you of the following dates : -1788 , August the 20th , September the 3d , 5th , 24th , November the 14th , 19th , 29th ; 1789 ...
... ment of the receipt of any of mine since that of August the 11th , 1788. Since that period , I have written to you of the following dates : -1788 , August the 20th , September the 3d , 5th , 24th , November the 14th , 19th , 29th ; 1789 ...
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... ment of attaining their mature age , all together . Let the ripe age be supposed of twenty - one years , and their period of life thirty - four years more , that being the average term given by the bills of mortality to persons of ...
... ment of attaining their mature age , all together . Let the ripe age be supposed of twenty - one years , and their period of life thirty - four years more , that being the average term given by the bills of mortality to persons of ...
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... ment being abandoned by this government , it might be thought worth while to transfer it to the United States , on conditions somewhat like those he has talked of . I have the honour to be , with sentiments of the most per- fect esteem ...
... ment being abandoned by this government , it might be thought worth while to transfer it to the United States , on conditions somewhat like those he has talked of . I have the honour to be , with sentiments of the most per- fect esteem ...
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... ment by government might affect the bankers a little , I doubt if any of them have embarked so much in the hands of govern- ment as to endanger failure , and especially as they have had such long warning . You will have known , that the ...
... ment by government might affect the bankers a little , I doubt if any of them have embarked so much in the hands of govern- ment as to endanger failure , and especially as they have had such long warning . You will have known , that the ...
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... ment from its enormous loss on that article . His idea of this resource seemed unfavourable . We talked over the objections of the supposed unhealthiness of that food , its tendency to produce scurvy , the chance of its taking with a ...
... ment from its enormous loss on that article . His idea of this resource seemed unfavourable . We talked over the objections of the supposed unhealthiness of that food , its tendency to produce scurvy , the chance of its taking with a ...
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Página 443 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Página 515 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they...
Página 494 - ... despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth; these circumstances render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position.
Página 439 - Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.
Página 489 - On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the treasury, and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased.
Página 511 - ... 2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred and friends, were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and greatly more so than those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids.
Página 53 - I have the honour to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN ANDRE.
Página 24 - I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
Página 25 - Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.
Página 210 - ... government is founded — that every one may govern itself according to whatever form it pleases, and change these forms at its own will; and that it may transact its business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president, or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.