The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 |
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... America . I cannot admit the efficacy of force to settle any question of historic or scientific truth . Truth is eternal and immutable , and the warfare of those who seek to suppress it will forever be in vain . The question which the ...
... America . I cannot admit the efficacy of force to settle any question of historic or scientific truth . Truth is eternal and immutable , and the warfare of those who seek to suppress it will forever be in vain . The question which the ...
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... Americans ! These national duties which call upon us to raise an avenging arm arise only in those rare alternatives when all else has proved to be ineffectual , and when we have good reason to know that such avenging arm will be ...
... Americans ! These national duties which call upon us to raise an avenging arm arise only in those rare alternatives when all else has proved to be ineffectual , and when we have good reason to know that such avenging arm will be ...
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... America . No more authentic account could be given as to the origin of the " Notes on Virginia " than the account Jefferson gives us himself in his Autobiography . This account is as follows : " Before I had left America , that is to ...
... America . No more authentic account could be given as to the origin of the " Notes on Virginia " than the account Jefferson gives us himself in his Autobiography . This account is as follows : " Before I had left America , that is to ...
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... America , and apparently without Jefferson's consent . A German translation was issued in 1789. Another American reprint of the English edition seems to have been made with Jefferson's consent in 1794. During the years of 1797 and 1798 ...
... America , and apparently without Jefferson's consent . A German translation was issued in 1789. Another American reprint of the English edition seems to have been made with Jefferson's consent in 1794. During the years of 1797 and 1798 ...
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... America , for a more philosophical view of them than is to be found in any other work . It is worthy of notice , that our mountains are not solitary and scattered con- fusedly over the face of the country ; but that they commence at ...
... America , for a more philosophical view of them than is to be found in any other work . It is worthy of notice , that our mountains are not solitary and scattered con- fusedly over the face of the country ; but that they commence at ...
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Page 231 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 304 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page xx - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 153 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the city of London, for the first colony of Virginia.
Page 93 - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 404 - PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question, " Whether that question (called the main question) shall now be put? " If it pass in the affirmative, then the main question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak anything further to it, either to add or alter. Manor, in Hakew., 28; 4 Grey, 27. The previous question being moved and seconded, the question from the Chair shall be, "Shall the main question be now put?
Page 303 - ... the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Page 427 - When, from counting the House, on a division, it appears that there is not a quorum, the matter continues exactly in the state in which it was before the division, and must be resumed at that point on any future day. — 2 Hats. 126. 1606, May i, on a question whether a member having said Yea, may afterwards sit and change his opinion?
Page 408 - In like manner, if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out.
Page 122 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.