Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volumen2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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... sous the bottle ) and Meursault of the best quality , viz . the Goutte d'or , at only one hundred and fifty livres ( six sous the bottle ) . It is remarkable , that the best of each kind , that is , of the red and white , is made at the ...
... sous the bottle ) and Meursault of the best quality , viz . the Goutte d'or , at only one hundred and fifty livres ( six sous the bottle ) . It is remarkable , that the best of each kind , that is , of the red and white , is made at the ...
Página 118
... sous each . March 9. Chalons Sennecy . Tournus . St. Albin . Macon . On the left are the fine plains of the Saone ; on the right , high lands , rather waving than hilly , sometimes sloping gently to the plains , sometimes dropping down ...
... sous each . March 9. Chalons Sennecy . Tournus . St. Albin . Macon . On the left are the fine plains of the Saone ; on the right , high lands , rather waving than hilly , sometimes sloping gently to the plains , sometimes dropping down ...
Página 121
... sous the bottle . Transportation to Paris is sixty livres , and the bottle four sous ; so it may be delivered at Paris in bottles , at twenty sous . When old , it costs ten or eleven louis the piece . There is a quality which keeps well ...
... sous the bottle . Transportation to Paris is sixty livres , and the bottle four sous ; so it may be delivered at Paris in bottles , at twenty sous . When old , it costs ten or eleven louis the piece . There is a quality which keeps well ...
Página 122
... sous the day , and feed themselves . Those by the year receive , men three louis , women half that , and are fed . They rarely eat meat ; a single hog salted , being the year's stock for a family . But they have plenty of cheese , eggs ...
... sous the day , and feed themselves . Those by the year receive , men three louis , women half that , and are fed . They rarely eat meat ; a single hog salted , being the year's stock for a family . But they have plenty of cheese , eggs ...
Página 124
... sous . Wheat bread , three sous the pound . Vin ordinaire , good , and of a strong body , two or three sous the bottle . Oranges , one sous a piece . They are nearly finishing at Nismes , a great mill , worked by a steam engine , which ...
... sous . Wheat bread , three sous the pound . Vin ordinaire , good , and of a strong body , two or three sous the bottle . Oranges , one sous a piece . They are nearly finishing at Nismes , a great mill , worked by a steam engine , which ...
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Página 87 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Página 268 - And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms.
Página 278 - This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
Página 269 - The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 275 - Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences.
Página 276 - Smaller objections are, the appeals on matters of fact as well as laws; and the binding all persons, legislative, executive, and judiciary by oath, to maintain that constitution. I do not pretend to decide, what would be the best method of procuring the establishment of the manifold good things in this constitution, and of getting rid of the bad. Whether by adopting it, in hopes of future amendment; or after it...
Página 85 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Página 275 - ... opposed by strong inferences from the body of the instrument, as well as from the omission of the clause of our present confederation which had declared that in express terms.
Página 294 - You know that nobody wishes more ardently to see an abolition, not only of the trade, but of the condition of slavery ; and certainly nobody will be more willing to encounter every sacrifice for that object.
Página 382 - Vice-Consuls shall exercise police over all the vessels of their respective nations, and shall have on board the said vessels all power and jurisdiction in civil matters, in all the disputes which may there arise ; they shall have an entire inspection over the said vessels, their crew, and the changes and substitutions there to be made; for which purpose they may go on board the said vessels whenever they may judge it necessary. Well understood that the functions hereby allowed shall be confined...