The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 - United States |
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... Lake Erie An eye - draught of the Mammoth Cave in War- ren County , Ky . An eye - draught of Madison's Cave PAGE 70 85 85 106 107 Plan of Madison's and Amen's Caverns . 108 ' A Sketch of several ancient Fortifications , situate on the ...
... Lake Erie An eye - draught of the Mammoth Cave in War- ren County , Ky . An eye - draught of Madison's Cave PAGE 70 85 85 106 107 Plan of Madison's and Amen's Caverns . 108 ' A Sketch of several ancient Fortifications , situate on the ...
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... Lake Erie , & which will be inserted in the book . A bad French translation which is getting out here , will probably oblige me to publish the original more freely which it neither deserved nor was ever intended . Your wishes which are ...
... Lake Erie , & which will be inserted in the book . A bad French translation which is getting out here , will probably oblige me to publish the original more freely which it neither deserved nor was ever intended . Your wishes which are ...
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... every flood of the river . What was the eastern channel has now become a lake , 9 miles in length and one in width , into which the river at this day never flows . This river yields turtle of a peculiar kind 1782 ] 91 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... every flood of the river . What was the eastern channel has now become a lake , 9 miles in length and one in width , into which the river at this day never flows . This river yields turtle of a peculiar kind 1782 ] 91 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... lake Michigan . The Illinois , about 10 miles about its mouth , is 300 Yards wide . The Kaskaskia is 100 yards wide at its entrance into the Missi- sipi , and preserves that breadth to the Buffalo plains 70 miles above . So far also it ...
... lake Michigan . The Illinois , about 10 miles about its mouth , is 300 Yards wide . The Kaskaskia is 100 yards wide at its entrance into the Missi- sipi , and preserves that breadth to the Buffalo plains 70 miles above . So far also it ...
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... all times navigation for periaguas , to within 18 miles of the Miami of the lake . The Wabash , from the mouth of Eel river to little river , a distance of 50 miles direct , is interrupted with frequent 1782 ] 95 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... all times navigation for periaguas , to within 18 miles of the Miami of the lake . The Wabash , from the mouth of Eel river to little river , a distance of 50 miles direct , is interrupted with frequent 1782 ] 95 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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Page 156 - 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 266 - 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 156 - 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 224 - 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 110 - 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 254 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Page 254 - 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 250 - 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 475 - 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 267 - 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...