The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 - United States |
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... thought it best as I informed you in a former letter to call into service on this occasion the Militia whose families and property were not imme- diately exposed . Being circumscribed in our number of Arms it still appears best , that ...
... thought it best as I informed you in a former letter to call into service on this occasion the Militia whose families and property were not imme- diately exposed . Being circumscribed in our number of Arms it still appears best , that ...
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... thought it would be well to put in hand Bills and com- municate to both Armies . I send a parcel to Colo Innes's and trouble you with those for General Muhlenburg's . I received a Letter from the Marquis Fayette to- day dated Baltimore ...
... thought it would be well to put in hand Bills and com- municate to both Armies . I send a parcel to Colo Innes's and trouble you with those for General Muhlenburg's . I received a Letter from the Marquis Fayette to- day dated Baltimore ...
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... thought 1 Copied from the Sparks MSS . , Harvard College , advisable , that Col. Wood should await your orders on 1781 ] 23 THOMAS JEFFERSON . To Baron Steuben, April 24th · British advance-Condition at Richmond-Movements Jefferson.
... thought 1 Copied from the Sparks MSS . , Harvard College , advisable , that Col. Wood should await your orders on 1781 ] 23 THOMAS JEFFERSON . To Baron Steuben, April 24th · British advance-Condition at Richmond-Movements Jefferson.
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... thought proper to burn the warehouses & Tobo . at Manchester & retire to Warwick where they did the same . Ill armed & untried militia who never before saw the face of an enemy have at times during the course of this war given occasions ...
... thought proper to burn the warehouses & Tobo . at Manchester & retire to Warwick where they did the same . Ill armed & untried militia who never before saw the face of an enemy have at times during the course of this war given occasions ...
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... thought proper to retire . Their Approach had occasioned a total removal of the public Stores from this Neighbourhood . This circumstance with the Disorder into which they have of necessity been thrown renders impracticable at this Time ...
... thought proper to retire . Their Approach had occasioned a total removal of the public Stores from this Neighbourhood . This circumstance with the Disorder into which they have of necessity been thrown renders impracticable at this Time ...
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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...