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Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson: With Particular Reference ... - Page 254
by Henry Lee - 1839 - 262 pages
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ...

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...restraining it to true facts and sound principles only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the...suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...restraining it to true facts and sound principles only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the...suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of ..., Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...and sound principles only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholv truth, that a suppression of the press could not more...seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious 80 by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 2; Volume 7

English literature - 1831 - 586 pages
...this point. " It is a melancholy truth," he says, " that a suppression of the press could not mure completely deprive the nation of its benefits than...suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."* * Jeffenon'i Memoirs, vol. iv., p. 83. Again, writing to Doctor Jones : — " 1 deplore with you the...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - Great Britain - 1842 - 206 pages
...domestic retirement of private individuals. " It is a melancholy truth," said President Jefferson, " that a suppression of the press could not more completely...being put into that polluted vehicle I will add, that he who never looks into a newspaper, is better informed than he who reads them ; as he who knows nothing,...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 208 pages
...polluted vehicle I will add, that he who never " It is a melancholy truth," said President Jefferson, " that a suppression of the press could not more completely...itself becomes suspicious, by being put into that looks into a newspaper, is better informed than he who reads them; as he who knows nothing, is nearer...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1831 - 622 pages
...be made available, gives a harsh opinion on this point. (i It is a melancholy truth," he says, £i that a suppression of the press could not more completely...deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandonedprostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 636 pages
...restraining it to true facts and sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the...suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...restraining it to true facts and sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the...suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront...
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Party Leaders: Sketches of Thomas Jefferson, Alex'r Hamilton, Andrew Jackson ...

Joseph Glover Baldwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 404 pages
..." exhibited itself in this language about that " Great Palladium of Public Liberty"—the press. " It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the...in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by its being put into that polluted vehicle. * * * I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper...
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