Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... object in the end . And that this may be the conduct of us all , I offer my sincere prayers , as well as for your health and happiness . TH : JEFFERSON . LETTER XII . TO MRS . ADAMS . Washington , June 13 , 1804 . DEAR MADAM , The ...
... object in the end . And that this may be the conduct of us all , I offer my sincere prayers , as well as for your health and happiness . TH : JEFFERSON . LETTER XII . TO MRS . ADAMS . Washington , June 13 , 1804 . DEAR MADAM , The ...
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... object in this letter being to place before your attention , that the acts imputed to me are either such as are falsely imputed , or as might flow from good as well as bad motives , I shall make no other addition , than the assurances ...
... object in this letter being to place before your attention , that the acts imputed to me are either such as are falsely imputed , or as might flow from good as well as bad motives , I shall make no other addition , than the assurances ...
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... object in passing the law was , that he should correct , not confirm , what was deemed the partiality of the judges . I thought it therefore proper to inquire , not whom they had employed , but whom I ought to appoint to fulfil the ...
... object in passing the law was , that he should correct , not confirm , what was deemed the partiality of the judges . I thought it therefore proper to inquire , not whom they had employed , but whom I ought to appoint to fulfil the ...
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... object , the public good : but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good . One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers ; the other , by a different one . One fears most the ...
... object , the public good : but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good . One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers ; the other , by a different one . One fears most the ...
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... object . January 4. At 5 A. M. information is received that they had passed Kennon's and Hood's the evening before , with a strong easterly wind , which determines their object to be either Petersburg or Richmond . The Governor now ...
... object . January 4. At 5 A. M. information is received that they had passed Kennon's and Hood's the evening before , with a strong easterly wind , which determines their object to be either Petersburg or Richmond . The Governor now ...
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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!