The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 - United States |
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... Navigation of the Potomac . V To George Washington , March 15th . 420 Congress - Virginian cession - Boundaries - Indian trade- Routes - River improvements . To James Madison , March 16th Mazzei - Congress - Foreign news . To the ...
... Navigation of the Potomac . V To George Washington , March 15th . 420 Congress - Virginian cession - Boundaries - Indian trade- Routes - River improvements . To James Madison , March 16th Mazzei - Congress - Foreign news . To the ...
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... navigating the lower parts of the river , but so light and of such a form as that they might be moved on wheels , and that those should be built either here or above the Falls as Safety and Convenience should dictate . He left me with a ...
... navigating the lower parts of the river , but so light and of such a form as that they might be moved on wheels , and that those should be built either here or above the Falls as Safety and Convenience should dictate . He left me with a ...
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... navigation may be imperfectly noted . Roanoke , so far as it lies within this state , is no where navigable , but for canoes , or light batteaux ; and , even for these , in such [ 4 ] detached parcels as to have prevented the ...
... navigation may be imperfectly noted . Roanoke , so far as it lies within this state , is no where navigable , but for canoes , or light batteaux ; and , even for these , in such [ 4 ] detached parcels as to have prevented the ...
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... navigation ceases . James River itself affords a harbor for vessels of any size in Hampton Road , but not in safety through the whole winter ; and there is navigable water for them as far as Mulberry Island . A 40 gun ship goes to James ...
... navigation ceases . James River itself affords a harbor for vessels of any size in Hampton Road , but not in safety through the whole winter ; and there is navigable water for them as far as Mulberry Island . A 40 gun ship goes to James ...
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... navigation may also be made to interlock with that of the Patowmac , and through that to communicate by a short portage with the Ohio . It is to be noted , that this river is called in the maps James River , only to its confluence with ...
... navigation may also be made to interlock with that of the Patowmac , and through that to communicate by a short portage with the Ohio . It is to be noted , that this river is called in the maps James River , only to its confluence with ...
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Page 137 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 137 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it ; I have killed many ; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace ; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 238 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 200 - For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Page 105 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Page 226 - In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Page 222 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Page 238 - From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.
Page 447 - Be it ordained, by the United States, in Congress assembled, that the said Territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district ; subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Page 239 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...