Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... hundred and forty gunboats . Their cost was estimated by Captain Rogers at two thousand dollars each ; but we had better say four thousand dollars . The whole would cost one million of dollars . But we should allow ourselves ten years ...
... hundred and forty gunboats . Their cost was estimated by Captain Rogers at two thousand dollars each ; but we had better say four thousand dollars . The whole would cost one million of dollars . But we should allow ourselves ten years ...
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... hundred and sixty - two votes against fourteen only . Connecticut is still federal by a small majority ; and Delaware on a poise , as she has been since 1775 , and will be till Anglomany with her yields to Americanism . Connecticut will ...
... hundred and sixty - two votes against fourteen only . Connecticut is still federal by a small majority ; and Delaware on a poise , as she has been since 1775 , and will be till Anglomany with her yields to Americanism . Connecticut will ...
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... hundred and twenty degrees of an oblong octagon , and in the capitol we unite two quadrants of a sphere by a semi - cylinder : all framed in De Lorme's manner . How has your planing machine answered ? Has it been tried and persevered in ...
... hundred and twenty degrees of an oblong octagon , and in the capitol we unite two quadrants of a sphere by a semi - cylinder : all framed in De Lorme's manner . How has your planing machine answered ? Has it been tried and persevered in ...
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... hundred militia at the Forest ( six miles off from Westover ) ; General Nelson , two hundred at Charles city Court House ( eight miles below Westover ) ; Gibson , one thousand , and Baron Steuben , eight hundred , on the south side of ...
... hundred militia at the Forest ( six miles off from Westover ) ; General Nelson , two hundred at Charles city Court House ( eight miles below Westover ) ; Gibson , one thousand , and Baron Steuben , eight hundred , on the south side of ...
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... hundred and fifty words . In this I have made such progress , that within a year or two more I think to give to the public what I then shall have acquired . I have lately seen a report of Mr. Volney's to the Celtic academy , on a work ...
... hundred and fifty words . In this I have made such progress , that within a year or two more I think to give to the public what I then shall have acquired . I have lately seen a report of Mr. Volney's to the Celtic academy , on a work ...
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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!