The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... become active ( and as we have no reason to believe they came here to sleep ) our Affairs will Assume a very disagreeable Aspect . The want of Arms and Military stores cannot be compensated by numbers of Militia as that of regular ...
... become active ( and as we have no reason to believe they came here to sleep ) our Affairs will Assume a very disagreeable Aspect . The want of Arms and Military stores cannot be compensated by numbers of Militia as that of regular ...
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... become too weighty not to be exacted equally and rigidly from all . You will consider it as a standing part of the Duty of an Officer whom in my letter of the 30th of March 1781 , you were desired to appoint for receiving recruits for ...
... become too weighty not to be exacted equally and rigidly from all . You will consider it as a standing part of the Duty of an Officer whom in my letter of the 30th of March 1781 , you were desired to appoint for receiving recruits for ...
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... become oppressive indeed . We have no power by the Law of raising Cavalry in the Counties gener- ally , but on some similar occasions we have recom- mended to the County Lieutenants who have the power of forming their Militia companies ...
... become oppressive indeed . We have no power by the Law of raising Cavalry in the Counties gener- ally , but on some similar occasions we have recom- mended to the County Lieutenants who have the power of forming their Militia companies ...
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... become very formidable to this State . I think it is necessary to inform the General Assembly that the State is at present without an Engineer . Lt Colo Warneck , who formerly acted in that Capacity , was made prisoner by the enemy at ...
... become very formidable to this State . I think it is necessary to inform the General Assembly that the State is at present without an Engineer . Lt Colo Warneck , who formerly acted in that Capacity , was made prisoner by the enemy at ...
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... become spies and intelligencers and if taken in the very fact are not subject to that speedy justice which alone can effectually deter . He supposes that the Lives of our Soldiers and citizens entrusted to his care might be rendered ...
... become spies and intelligencers and if taken in the very fact are not subject to that speedy justice which alone can effectually deter . He supposes that the Lives of our Soldiers and citizens entrusted to his care might be rendered ...
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Էջ 140 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Էջ 140 - 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Էջ 250 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Էջ 208 - For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Էջ 98 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Էջ 238 - In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Էջ 98 - Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the county of Rockbridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public and commodious passage over a valley which cannot be crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance. The stream passing under it is called Cedar creek. It is a water of James...
Էջ 251 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...
Էջ 389 - ... to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Էջ 373 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.