Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... doubt his guarantee of it : and we , four days ago , sent off orders to the Governor of the Mississippi territory and General Wilkinson , to move down with the troops at hand to New Orleans , to receive the possession from Mr. Laussat ...
... doubt his guarantee of it : and we , four days ago , sent off orders to the Governor of the Mississippi territory and General Wilkinson , to move down with the troops at hand to New Orleans , to receive the possession from Mr. Laussat ...
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... doubt that France would punctually execute its part ; and I assured Mr. Pichon that I had more confidence in the word of the First Consul than in all the parchment we could sign . He saw that we had ratified the treaty ; that both ...
... doubt that France would punctually execute its part ; and I assured Mr. Pichon that I had more confidence in the word of the First Consul than in all the parchment we could sign . He saw that we had ratified the treaty ; that both ...
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... doubt his guarantee of it : and we , four days ago , sent off orders to the Governor of the Mississippi territory and General Wilkinson , to move down with the troops at hand to New Orleans , to receive the possession from Mr. Laussat ...
... doubt his guarantee of it : and we , four days ago , sent off orders to the Governor of the Mississippi territory and General Wilkinson , to move down with the troops at hand to New Orleans , to receive the possession from Mr. Laussat ...
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... doubt the competency of a republican government to meet a crisis of great danger , or to unhinge the confidence of the people in the public functionaries ; an institution like this , penetrating by its branches every part of the Union ...
... doubt the competency of a republican government to meet a crisis of great danger , or to unhinge the confidence of the people in the public functionaries ; an institution like this , penetrating by its branches every part of the Union ...
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... doubts whether it would be acceptable may have forbidden manifestations of it . Mr. Adams ' friendship and mine began at an earlier date . It accompanied us through long and important scenes . The differVOL . IV . 3 ent conclusions we ...
... doubts whether it would be acceptable may have forbidden manifestations of it . Mr. Adams ' friendship and mine began at an earlier date . It accompanied us through long and important scenes . The differVOL . IV . 3 ent conclusions we ...
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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!