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Tempus loquendi,
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Tempus tacendi.
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Said Mr Jefferson: It wd. have given us
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time.
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“modern dress for your statue.....
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“I remember having written you while Congress sat at Annapolis,
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“on water communication between ours and the western country,
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“particularly the information....of the plain between
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“Big Beaver and Cayohoga, which made me hope that a canal
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......navigation of Lake Erie and the Ohio. You must have had
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“occasion of getting better information on this subject
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“and if you have you wd. oblige me
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“by a communication of it. I consider this canal,
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“if practicable, as a very important work.
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T. J. to General Washington, 1787
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..... no slaves north of Maryland district....
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..... flower found in Connecticut that vegetates when suspended
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in air ...
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... screw more effectual if placed below surface of water.
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Suspect that a countryman of ours, Mr Bushnell of Connecticut
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is entitled to the merit of prior discovery.
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Excellency Mr Adams. Excellency Dr. Franklin.
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And thus Mr Jefferson (president) to Tom Paine:
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“You expressed a wish to get a passage to this country
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in a public vessel. Mr. Dawson is charged with orders
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to the captain of the ‘Maryland’ to receive and accommodate you
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with passage back, if you can depart on so short a warning....
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in hopes you will find us returned to sentiments
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worthy of former time..... in these you have laboured as
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much as any man living. That you may long live to
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continue your labours and to reap their fitting reward....
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Assurances of my high esteem and attachment.”
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“English papers ... their lies.....
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in a few years ... no slaves northward of Maryland ...
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“Their tobacco, 9 millions, delivered in port of France;
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6 millions to manufacture
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on which the king takes thirty million
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that cost 25 odd to collect
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so that in all it costs 72 millions livres to the
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consumer......
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persuaded (I am) in this branch of the revenue
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the collection absorbs too much.
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(from Paris, 1785)
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......for our model, the Maison Quarrée of Nismes.....
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With respect to his motives (Madison writing) I acknowledged
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I had been much puzzled to divine any natural ones
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without looking deeper into human nature
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than I was willing to do.
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(in re/Mr Robert Smith)
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So critical the state of that country
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moneyed men I imagine are glad to place their money abroad.
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Mr Adams could borrow there for us.
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This country is really supposed to be on the eve of a XTZBK49HT
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(parts of this letter in cypher)
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Jefferson, from Paris, to Madison, Aug. 2, 1787
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I hear that Mr Beaumarchais means to make himself heard ..
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... turn through the Potomac,.. commerce of Lake Erie....
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I can further say with safety there is not a crowned head
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in Europe whose talents or merits would entitle him
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to be elected a vestryman by any American parish.
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T. J. to General Washington, May 2. ’88.
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“When Lafayette harangued you and me and John Quincy Adams
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“through a whole evening in your hotel in the Cul de Sac....
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“.... silent as you were. I was, in plain truth as astonished
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“at the grossness of his ignorance of government and history,
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“as I had been for years before at that of Turgot,
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La Rochefoucauld, of Condorcet and of Franklin.”
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To Mr Jefferson, Mr John Adams.
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... care of the letters now enclosed. Most of them are
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of a complexion not proper for the eye of the police.
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From Monticello, April 16th. 1811
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To Mr Barlow departing for Paris.
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... indebted to nobody for more cordial aid than to Gallatin ...
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“Adair too had his kink. He believed all the Indians of
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“America to be descended from the jews.”
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Mr Jefferson to Mr Adams.
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“But observe that the public were at the same time paying
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on it an interest of exactly the same amount
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(four million dollars). Where then is the gain to either
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party which makes it a public blessing?
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to Mr Eppes, 1813
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“Man, a rational creature!” said Franklin.
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“Come, let us suppose a rational man.
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“Strip him of all his appetites, especially his hunger and thirst.
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“He is in his chamber, engaged in making experiments,
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“Or in pursuing some problem.
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“At this moment a servant knocks. ‘Sir,
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“‘dinner is on the table.’
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“‘Ham and chickens?’ ‘Ham!’
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“‘And must I break the chain of my thoughts to
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“‘go down and gnaw a morsel of damned hog’s arse?
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“‘Put aside your ham; I will dine tomorrow;’
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Take away appetite, and the present generation would not
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Live a month, and no future generation would exist;
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and thus the exalted dignity of human nature etc. .....
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Mr Adams to Mr Jefferson, 15 Nov. 1813.
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“.. wish that I cd. subjoin Gosindi’s Syntagma
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“of the doctrines of Epicurus.
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(Mr Adams.)
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“.. this was the state of things in 1785 ...”
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(Mr Jefferson.)
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.. met by agreement, about the close of the session---
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Patrick Henry, Frank Lee and your father,
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Henry Lee and myself ... to consult .. measures
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circumstances of times seemed to call for ...
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produce some channel of correspondence ... this was in ’73.
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Jefferson to D. Carr
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.. church of St. Peter.....human reason, human conscience,
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though I believe that there are such things....
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Mr Adams.
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A tiel leis....en ancien scripture, and this
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they have translated Holy Scripture ...
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Mr Jefferson
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and they continue this error.
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“Bonaparte ... knowing nothing of commerce....
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... or paupers, who are about one fifth of the whole ...
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(on the state of England in 1814).
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Hic Explicit Cantus
