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... The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787 - Page 360by Thomas Jefferson - 1894Full view - About this book
| Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 pages
...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...man is the only animal which devours his own kind.'' See " Memoirs and Correspondence," (1829,) II. 85. also to endeavour to bring things into those situations... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...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...general prey of the rich on the poor. The want of news lias led me into disquisition instead of narration, forgetting you have every day enough of that. I... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...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...governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the ricb on the poor. The want of news has led me into disquisition instead of narration, forgetting you... | |
| 1830 - 524 pages
...once they become inattentive to public affairs, you, and I, and congress, and assemblies, judges, and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be...Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. — 1787, Vol. ii. p. 84. 11 " RELIGION. — The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 pages
...Congress, and Assemblies, Judges *nd Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of^our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions...and to the general prey of the rich on the poor." To JAMES MADISON. — "I am impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the Eastern... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...inattentive to the public affairs, you, and I, and Congress, and assemblies, judges and governors, sjiall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general...and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.' To JAMES MADISON. — ' I am impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the eastern... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...inattentive to the public affairs, you, and I, and Congress, and assemblies, judges and governors, shall alJ become wolves. It seems to be the. law of our general...and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.' To JAMES MADISON. — 'I nm impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the eastern... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 710 pages
...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...and to the general prey of the rich on the poor." Some new turns of the same thoughts and an extension of them, occur in a letter to a more confidential... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 726 pages
...inattentive to the public affairs, you, and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall ill become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general...and to the general prey of the rich on the poor." Some new turns of the same thoughts and an extension of them, occur in a letter to a more confidential... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 pages
...inattentive to the pnbBc affairs, you, and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, chill si become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of indivi&al exceptions : and experience declares that man is the only animal which detours his own kind... | |
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