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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... feet water to Louisville , ten feet to Le Tarte's rapids , forty miles above the mouth of the great Kanhaway , and a sufficiency at all times for light batteaux and canoes to Fort Pitt . The rapids are in latitude 38 ° 8 ' . The ...
... feet water to Louisville , ten feet to Le Tarte's rapids , forty miles above the mouth of the great Kanhaway , and a sufficiency at all times for light batteaux and canoes to Fort Pitt . The rapids are in latitude 38 ° 8 ' . The ...
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... feet . A part of this island is so high as to have been never overflowed , and to command the settlement at Louisville , which is opposite to it . The fort , however , is situated at the head of the falls . The ground on the south side ...
... feet . A part of this island is so high as to have been never overflowed , and to command the settlement at Louisville , which is opposite to it . The fort , however , is situated at the head of the falls . The ground on the south side ...
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... feet , become very passable for boats . It then admits light boats , except in dry seasons , sixty - five miles further to the head of Tygart's valley , presenting only some small rapids and falls of one or two feet perpendicular , and ...
... feet , become very passable for boats . It then admits light boats , except in dry seasons , sixty - five miles further to the head of Tygart's valley , presenting only some small rapids and falls of one or two feet perpendicular , and ...
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... feet draught . That part of the trade which comes from the waters of the Mississippi must pass from them through some portage into the waters of the lakes . The portage from the Illinois river into a water of Michigan is of one mile ...
... feet draught . That part of the trade which comes from the waters of the Mississippi must pass from them through some portage into the waters of the lakes . The portage from the Illinois river into a water of Michigan is of one mile ...
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... feet perpendicular , which is not a fifth part of the height of the mountains of South America , nor one - third of the height which would be necessary in our latitude to preserve ice in the open air unmelted through the year . The ...
... feet perpendicular , which is not a fifth part of the height of the mountains of South America , nor one - third of the height which would be necessary in our latitude to preserve ice in the open air unmelted through the year . The ...
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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.