The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... DEAR SIR , -Your journey to the Westward having prevented my writing to you till now that a letter may probably find you at Congress I shall resume the correspondence discontinued since I left Boston . My passage was remarkably short ...
... DEAR SIR , -Your journey to the Westward having prevented my writing to you till now that a letter may probably find you at Congress I shall resume the correspondence discontinued since I left Boston . My passage was remarkably short ...
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... DEAR SIR , There has been a lamp called the cylinder lamp lately invented here . It gives a light equal as is thought , to that of six or eight 1 From The Collections of the N. Y. Historical Society for 1878 , p . 196 . candles . It ...
... DEAR SIR , There has been a lamp called the cylinder lamp lately invented here . It gives a light equal as is thought , to that of six or eight 1 From The Collections of the N. Y. Historical Society for 1878 , p . 196 . candles . It ...
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... DEAR GENERAL , -I duly received the letter you were so good as to write me from New York . have here under our contemplation the future mis- eries of human nature , like to be occasioned by the ambition of a young man , who has been ...
... DEAR GENERAL , -I duly received the letter you were so good as to write me from New York . have here under our contemplation the future mis- eries of human nature , like to be occasioned by the ambition of a young man , who has been ...
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... DEAR SIR , -You were informed by my letters of Nov. 11. & Jan. 14. that the cypher established between us would not explain a syllable of your let- ters . - Those of Nov. 1. & Dec. 14. having rendered me extremely desirous of ...
... DEAR SIR , -You were informed by my letters of Nov. 11. & Jan. 14. that the cypher established between us would not explain a syllable of your let- ters . - Those of Nov. 1. & Dec. 14. having rendered me extremely desirous of ...
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... DEAR SIR , I wrote you by the packet which sailed from hence in Feb. and then acknowleged the receipt of yours of Dec. 14. which came by the packet arriving here in Jan. That which sailed from N. Y. in Jan. & arrived here in Feb. brings ...
... DEAR SIR , I wrote you by the packet which sailed from hence in Feb. and then acknowleged the receipt of yours of Dec. 14. which came by the packet arriving here in Jan. That which sailed from N. Y. in Jan. & arrived here in Feb. brings ...
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Page 453 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 170 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 118 - It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy: our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Page 466 - Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
Page 254 - I think by far the most important bill in our whole code, is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness.
Page 320 - In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles : and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.
Page 107 - Were I to indulge my own theory, I should wish them to practise neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand, with respect to Europe, precisely on the footing of China. We should thus avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen.
Page 346 - If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions, and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Page 255 - Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Page 171 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.