Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Svazek 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... I lose no time in communicating to you fully my whole views respecting them , premising a few words on the system of fortifications . Considering the harbors which , from their situation and importance , are entitled to defence , and 28.
... I lose no time in communicating to you fully my whole views respecting them , premising a few words on the system of fortifications . Considering the harbors which , from their situation and importance , are entitled to defence , and 28.
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... whole of these would require , according to the best opinions , two hundred and forty gunboats . Their cost was esti- mated by Captain Rogers at two thousand dollars each ; but we had better say four thousand dollars . The whole would ...
... whole of these would require , according to the best opinions , two hundred and forty gunboats . Their cost was esti- mated by Captain Rogers at two thousand dollars each ; but we had better say four thousand dollars . The whole would ...
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... whole day , without being obscured by a cloud in any part of it and I never saw the moment , in which , viewing the sky through its whole hemisphere , I could say there was not the smallest speck of a cloud in it . I arrived at ...
... whole day , without being obscured by a cloud in any part of it and I never saw the moment , in which , viewing the sky through its whole hemisphere , I could say there was not the smallest speck of a cloud in it . I arrived at ...
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... whole nation . Unfortunately , these being the mercantile papers , published chiefly in the sea ports , are the only ones which find their way to Europe , and make very false impressions there . I am happy to hear that the late ...
... whole nation . Unfortunately , these being the mercantile papers , published chiefly in the sea ports , are the only ones which find their way to Europe , and make very false impressions there . I am happy to hear that the late ...
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... whole Senate . General Smith was so promi- nent in the opposition to Armstrong , that it would be impossible for them to act together . We conclude , therefore , to leave the matter with Armstrong and Bowdoin . Indeed , my dear Sir , I ...
... whole Senate . General Smith was so promi- nent in the opposition to Armstrong , that it would be impossible for them to act together . We conclude , therefore , to leave the matter with Armstrong and Bowdoin . Indeed , my dear Sir , I ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 413 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.