 | 1815 - 508 pages
...sea coasts to which they might reasonably claim a right of prohibiting the commitment of hostilities. The greatest distance, to which any respectable assent...has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of 20 miles, and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is the utmost... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 582 pages
...sea coast to which they might reasonably claim a right of prohibiting the commitment of hostilities. The greatest distance to which any respectable assent...has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles; and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...sea coast to which they might reasonably claim a right of prohibiting the commitment of hostilities. The greatest distance to which any respectable assent...has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles ; and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 pages
...sea coast to which they might reasonably claim a right of prohibiting the commitment of hostilities. The greatest distance to which any respectable assent...has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles ; and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 538 pages
...commitment of hostilities. The greatest distance to which any respectable assent among nations lias been at any time given, has been the extent of the human sight, es'jmated at upwards of twenty miles; and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 pages
...sea coast to which they might reasonably claim a right of prohibiting the commitment of hostilities. The greatest distance to which any respectable assent...has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles ; and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is... | |
 | Great Britain - 1872 - 1140 pages
...United States, thinking that,' before ii shall be finally decided to what distance from our sea shores the territorial protection of the United States shall...extent of the human sight, estimated at upward of twenty miles, and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is the utmost range... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1887 - 876 pages
...MARGINAL BELT OF SEA. § 32. " The greatest distance to which any respectable absent among nations Las been at any time given, has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles, and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is the... | |
 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 528 pages
...of appropriation for any purpose whatever. Mr. Jefferson, as Secretary of State (in 1793), said : " The greatest distance to which any respectable assent...has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles, and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is the... | |
 | 1890 - 986 pages
...look at the record. In 1793, Mr- JEFFERSON, then Secretary of State, wrote to the French Minister: — The greatest distance to which any respectable assent among nations has been at any time given, h-is been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles, and the smallest distance,... | |
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The greatest distance to which any respectable assent among nations has been at any time given, has been the extent of the human sight, estimated at upwards of twenty miles, and the smallest distance, I believe, claimed by any nation whatever, is the... 
