The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 |
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... Suppose , by an extraordinary operation of nature or of law , one half the laborers of a State could in the course of one night be transformed into slaves ; would the State be made the poorer or the less able to pay taxes ? That the ...
... Suppose , by an extraordinary operation of nature or of law , one half the laborers of a State could in the course of one night be transformed into slaves ; would the State be made the poorer or the less able to pay taxes ? That the ...
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... suppose of eighty millions , would require twelve figures , to wit , 115,200 , - 000,000 units . Such a system of money - arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society . I proposed , therefore , instead of ...
... suppose of eighty millions , would require twelve figures , to wit , 115,200 , - 000,000 units . Such a system of money - arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society . I proposed , therefore , instead of ...
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... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , page 87 , and from an in- exact attention to its ...
... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , page 87 , and from an in- exact attention to its ...
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... suppose the question of right sus- pended , in order to examine this act on principles of justice . An act of Parliament had been passed , imposing duties on teas , to be paid in America , against which act the Americans had protested ...
... suppose the question of right sus- pended , in order to examine this act on principles of justice . An act of Parliament had been passed , imposing duties on teas , to be paid in America , against which act the Americans had protested ...
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... suppose they are there placed to awe the members from such purposes as these ? When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents , when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights , when they ...
... suppose they are there placed to awe the members from such purposes as these ? When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents , when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights , when they ...
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