Notes on the State of VirginiaLilly and Wait, 1832 - 280 Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, first published in 1832, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... reason they were named by the Indiaus the Endless mountains . A substance , supposed to be Pumice , found floating on the Mississippi , has induced a conjecture , that there is a volcano on some of its waters : and as these are mostly ...
... reason they were named by the Indiaus the Endless mountains . A substance , supposed to be Pumice , found floating on the Mississippi , has induced a conjecture , that there is a volcano on some of its waters : and as these are mostly ...
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... reason to suppose the nature of the elephant fitted . However , it has been demonstrated , that , if a variation of obli- quity in the ecliptic takes place at all , it is vibratory , and never exceeds the limits of 9 degrees , which is ...
... reason to suppose the nature of the elephant fitted . However , it has been demonstrated , that , if a variation of obli- quity in the ecliptic takes place at all , it is vibratory , and never exceeds the limits of 9 degrees , which is ...
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... reason he thinks is , that the heats of America are less ; that more waters are spread over its surface by nature , and fewer of these drained off by the hand of man . In other words , that heat is friendly , and moisture adverse to the ...
... reason he thinks is , that the heats of America are less ; that more waters are spread over its surface by nature , and fewer of these drained off by the hand of man . In other words , that heat is friendly , and moisture adverse to the ...
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Thomas Jefferson. their original stock , is doubtless true ; and the reason is very obvious . In a thinly peopled country , the spon- taneous productions of the forests and waste fields are sufficient to support indifferently the ...
Thomas Jefferson. their original stock , is doubtless true ; and the reason is very obvious . In a thinly peopled country , the spon- taneous productions of the forests and waste fields are sufficient to support indifferently the ...
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... reason ; because our man and their woman is habituated to labour , and formed by it . With both races the sex which is indulged with ease is least athletic . An Indian man is small in the hand and wrist , for the same reason for which a ...
... reason ; because our man and their woman is habituated to labour , and formed by it . With both races the sex which is indulged with ease is least athletic . An Indian man is small in the hand and wrist , for the same reason for which a ...
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Strona 275 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Strona 276 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations — entangling alliances with none ; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Strona 66 - 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.
Strona 234 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Strona 170 - 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.
Strona 273 - A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right...
Strona 172 - ... phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Strona 277 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Strona 275 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Strona 239 - 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.