Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... England , Ireland , Holland , & c . into it , which would be the case on your construction . When an instrument admits two constructions , the one safe , the other dangerous , the one precise the other indefinite , I prefer that which ...
... England , Ireland , Holland , & c . into it , which would be the case on your construction . When an instrument admits two constructions , the one safe , the other dangerous , the one precise the other indefinite , I prefer that which ...
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... England , and my hope was to palliate and endure , if Messrs . Ross , Morris , & c . did not force a premature rupture , until that event . I believed the event not very distant , but acknowledge it came on sooner than I had expected ...
... England , and my hope was to palliate and endure , if Messrs . Ross , Morris , & c . did not force a premature rupture , until that event . I believed the event not very distant , but acknowledge it came on sooner than I had expected ...
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... England will think of you , and give you an opportunity of reading it . Accept my affectionate salutations , and assurances of great esteem and respect . Tu : JEFFERSON . LETTER X. TO ELBRIDGE GERRY . 3 Washington , March 3 , 1804 ...
... England will think of you , and give you an opportunity of reading it . Accept my affectionate salutations , and assurances of great esteem and respect . Tu : JEFFERSON . LETTER X. TO ELBRIDGE GERRY . 3 Washington , March 3 , 1804 ...
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... England has therefore not been renewed , and all overtures for treaty with other nations have been declined . We believe , that with nations as with individuals , dealings may be carried on as advantageously , perhaps more so , while ...
... England has therefore not been renewed , and all overtures for treaty with other nations have been declined . We believe , that with nations as with individuals , dealings may be carried on as advantageously , perhaps more so , while ...
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... England should combine for any purpose ; their mutual distrust and deadly hatred of each other admit no co - operation . It is impossible that England should be willing to see France re - possess Louisiana , or get footing on our ...
... England should combine for any purpose ; their mutual distrust and deadly hatred of each other admit no co - operation . It is impossible that England should be willing to see France re - possess Louisiana , or get footing on our ...
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Página 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.
Página 385 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 203 - I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!