The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont. Reports and opinions while Secretary of StateTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... hope , will give him to us for life . Nor will it at all inter- fere with his botanical rambles or journeys . The government of Portugal is so peaceable and inoffensive , that it has never any al- tercations with its friends . If their ...
... hope , will give him to us for life . Nor will it at all inter- fere with his botanical rambles or journeys . The government of Portugal is so peaceable and inoffensive , that it has never any al- tercations with its friends . If their ...
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... hope of relief . They are certainly excluded from the blessings of a free government for life , and in- definitely , for aught the constitution has provided . This solecism may be called anything but republican , and ought undoubtedly ...
... hope of relief . They are certainly excluded from the blessings of a free government for life , and in- definitely , for aught the constitution has provided . This solecism may be called anything but republican , and ought undoubtedly ...
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... occasion to assure you of my perfect satisfaction with the manner in which you have con- ducted the several matters committed to you by us ; and to ex- My press my hope that through your agency , we may CORRESPONDENCE . 23.
... occasion to assure you of my perfect satisfaction with the manner in which you have con- ducted the several matters committed to you by us ; and to ex- My press my hope that through your agency , we may CORRESPONDENCE . 23.
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Thomas Jefferson Henry Augustine Washington. press my hope that through your agency , we may be able to re- move everything inauspicious to a cordial friendship between this country , and the one in which you are stationed ; a friendship ...
Thomas Jefferson Henry Augustine Washington. press my hope that through your agency , we may be able to re- move everything inauspicious to a cordial friendship between this country , and the one in which you are stationed ; a friendship ...
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... hope of some future renewal of that kindness ; in which we all join her , as in the assurances of affectionate attachment and respect . JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON . QUINCY , August 9 , 1816 . DEAR SIR , -The biography of Mr. Vander ...
... hope of some future renewal of that kindness ; in which we all join her , as in the assurances of affectionate attachment and respect . JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON . QUINCY , August 9 , 1816 . DEAR SIR , -The biography of Mr. Vander ...
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Page 315 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit ; she now offers to lead, aid, and accompany us in it. By acceding to her proposition, we detach her from the bands, bring her mighty weight into the scale of free government, and emancipate a continent at one stroke, which might otherwise linger long in doubt and difficulty.
Page 13 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Page 14 - 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 book-reading; and...
Page 337 - Who vice in all its pomp and power, can treat with just neglect; And piety, though clothed in rags, religiously respect. Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; And though he promise to his loss, he makes his promise good.
Page 15 - 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 book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.
Page 316 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all, on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Page 316 - 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.
Page 196 - This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Page 316 - But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war, but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it...
Page 26 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.