The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 - United States |
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... inhabitants equal . The great obstacles begin at what are called the great falls , 90 miles above the mouth , below which are only five or six rapids , and these passable , with some difficulty , even at low water . From the falls to ...
... inhabitants equal . The great obstacles begin at what are called the great falls , 90 miles above the mouth , below which are only five or six rapids , and these passable , with some difficulty , even at low water . From the falls to ...
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... inhabitants , either native or emigrant , but as they saw them so called in European maps . In the same direction generally are the veins of limestone , coal and other minerals hitherto discovered and so range the falls of our great ...
... inhabitants , either native or emigrant , but as they saw them so called in European maps . In the same direction generally are the veins of limestone , coal and other minerals hitherto discovered and so range the falls of our great ...
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... inhabitant of the frontier of Virginia , by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe . The neighbouring whites , according to their custom , undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way . Col. Cresap , a man in- famous for the many ...
... inhabitant of the frontier of Virginia , by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe . The neighbouring whites , according to their custom , undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way . Col. Cresap , a man in- famous for the many ...
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... inhabitants ; France twenty millions ; and the British islands ten . We produce a Washington , a Frank- lin , a Rittenhouse . France then should have half a dozen in each of these lines , and Great Britain half that number , equally ...
... inhabitants ; France twenty millions ; and the British islands ten . We produce a Washington , a Frank- lin , a Rittenhouse . France then should have half a dozen in each of these lines , and Great Britain half that number , equally ...
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... inhabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery , superstition and ignorance . Whenever they shall be ... inhabitant of Ireland , Sweden , or Finland would have formed the contrary opinion . Had South America then been ...
... inhabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery , superstition and ignorance . Whenever they shall be ... inhabitant of Ireland , Sweden , or Finland would have formed the contrary opinion . Had South America then been ...
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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...