Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... passing the bills , and we are preparing every thing to be done on our part towards execution , and we shall not avail ourselves of the three months ' delay after possession of the province , allowed by the treaty for the delivery of ...
... passing the bills , and we are preparing every thing to be done on our part towards execution , and we shall not avail ourselves of the three months ' delay after possession of the province , allowed by the treaty for the delivery of ...
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... passing which might be trying to some minds , I never be- lieved yours to be of that kind , nor felt that my own was . Neither estimate of your character , nor the esteem founded in that , has ever been lessened for a single moment ...
... passing which might be trying to some minds , I never be- lieved yours to be of that kind , nor felt that my own was . Neither estimate of your character , nor the esteem founded in that , has ever been lessened for a single moment ...
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... passed , what a field of slaughter does it exhi- bit ! Where are all the friends who entered it with us , under all the inspiring energies of health and hope ? As if pursued by the havoc of war , they are strewed by the way , some ...
... passed , what a field of slaughter does it exhi- bit ! Where are all the friends who entered it with us , under all the inspiring energies of health and hope ? As if pursued by the havoc of war , they are strewed by the way , some ...
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... passing the law was , that he should correct , not confirm , what was deemed the partiality of the judges . I thought it therefore proper to inquire , not whom they had employed , but whom I ought to appoint to fulfil the intentions of ...
... passing the law was , that he should correct , not confirm , what was deemed the partiality of the judges . I thought it therefore proper to inquire , not whom they had employed , but whom I ought to appoint to fulfil the intentions of ...
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... passed Kennon's and Hood's the evening before , with a strong easterly wind , which determines their object to be either Peters- burg or Richmond . The Governor now calls in the whole militia from the adjacent counties . At 5 P. M. ...
... passed Kennon's and Hood's the evening before , with a strong easterly wind , which determines their object to be either Peters- burg or Richmond . The Governor now calls in the whole militia from the adjacent counties . At 5 P. M. ...
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Page 324 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Page 290 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading; and...
Page 382 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe, our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 290 - I know, also, that laws and institutions muit go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Page 291 - We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Page 236 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known ; no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a...
Page 413 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Page 3 - I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
Page 441 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Page 382 - Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition offers, of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy.