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" 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... "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 278
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Thomas Jefferson: A Character Sketch

Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 156 pages
...Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. When we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. Health, learning, and virtue will insure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private...
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The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 pages
...(P., Dec. 1787.) »In the Congress edition (ii, 333) this extract has been tditfd so as to read : " When we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." — EDITOR. THE JEFFERSONIAN CYCLOPEDIA 144 1278. CITIES, Evils of. — I view great cities as pestilential...
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The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 pages
...117. FORD ED., i, 2OO. (July 1792.) »In the Congress edition (H, 332!, the reading is: " \Vhen we pet piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and KO to eating one another as tney do there." The FORD version is the correct one.— EDITOR. 2OÇ THE...
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The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Volume 6

Oregon Historical Society - 1905 - 496 pages
...we shall be so, as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remains vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." We see here why he was an expansionist and what was the relation of his long cherished project of transcontinental...
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Master Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...deceive us as long as we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall be so, as long as agriculture is our main object, which will be the case, while there remain...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. WHERE does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist except in the single instance of Massachusetts?...
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The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British West Indies and Bahamas ...

Wilbur Henry Siebert - 1913 - 422 pages
...American order was bound up with the continued I preponderance of agriculture, for he believed that "when we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they (do there." 10S Thus he appears not so much as the apostle of a complete democracy, as he does the champion of...
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Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

Voltairine De Cleyre - 1914 - 492 pages
...shall by virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case as long as there remain vacant lands in any part of America....Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." Which we are doing, because of the inevitable development of Commerce and Manufacture, and the concomitant...
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Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

Charles Austin Beard - 1915 - 518 pages
...long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remain vacanVlands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." 2 1 Workt (Washington ed.), Vol. I, p. 403. *J'n<l., Vol. II, p. 332. In a pamphlet entitled An Inquiry...
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Western Influences on Political Parties to 1825: An Essay in Historical ...

Homer Carey Hockett - 1917 - 172 pages
...an American order was bound up with the continued preponderance of agriculture, for he believed that "when we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." 10S Thus he appears not so much as the apostle of a complete democracy, as he does the champion of...
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Contributions in History and Political Science, Issue 4

Ohio State University - 1917 - 168 pages
...an American order was bound up with the continued preponderance of agriculture, for he believed that "when we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." 108 Thus he appears not so much as the apostle of a complete democracy, as he does the champion of...
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