Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen2

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Página 382 - three months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause. Article XI. When the said offenders shall be a part of the crew of a vessel of their nation, and shall have withdrawn themselves on board the said vessel, they may be there
Página 430 - not lead me into details, improper for the present mode of conveyance. After observing, therefore, that the gazettes of France and Leyden to the present date, accompany this, I shall only add assurance of the sincere esteem and respect, with which I have the honor to be, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, LETTER
Página 65 - by kings, priests, and nobles: and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions. * * * * * * * * *. I thank you for your communications in Natural History. The several instances of trees,
Página 45 - nobles and priests, and by them alone. Preach, my Dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance ; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know, that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose, is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to
Página 475 - you again with tenfold fury. Permit me to add to these, very sincere assurances of the sentiments of esteem and respect, with which I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, TH: JEFFERSON. [The annexed is the Charter accompanying the preceding letter.]
Página 29 - whole is submitted to Congress, as I conceive it my duty to furnish them with whatever information I can gather, which may throw any light on the subjects depending before them. I have the .honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, LETTER
Página 95 - exertion is encouraging, because to present amusement, it joins the promise of some future good. The intervals of leisure are filled by the society of real friends, whose affections are not thinned to cob-web, by being spread over a thousand objects. This is the picture, in the light it is presented to my mind ; now let
Página 97 - of being speedily concluded. The exertions of Monsieur de Crève-coeur, and particularly his influence with the Duke d'Harcourt, the principal instrument in effecting it, have been of chief consequence in this matter. I have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, LETTER XLIX. TO
Página 366 - request your perusal. I inclose with them, a draught, on the basis of the one you were pleased to give me, altered so as to reconcile it to the spirit of our laws. • 'I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, LETTER

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