1Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 26 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I
talk of ploughs & harrows, seeding & harvesting, with my neighbors,
2Bernard McMahon to Thomas Jefferson, 27 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
will plough and harrow freely
3To James Madison from Solomon Bartlett, 5 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
...suckteful this yare the feddrls have lost theire power and is like to foll to note many are turning back again grat sukses to youre electshon O shall days or months or years ware out youre naim you vallant harrow shorely the lord is with you I have no dought in me but the lord will direct youre way he is able to make youre nixt lectshon sronger then the last Boyed and my self did all we for...
4John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
...the Ostensible excuse) will scarse Allow them the means—if really so—should they possess the good Principle of performing with good faith their promises long since made of adjusting this debt of Honor—which to a gratefull mind must harrow up the most cutting feelings of both shame and remorse—her Answer may however at least Afford some future hope of redress.
5Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 30 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
especially when their sensibilities are to be daily harrowed up by Cannibal newspapers. suffering myself under whatever inflicts sufferance on them, I condole with them mutually, & ask the mutual permission to esteem all, as I ever did; not to know their differences, nor ask the...
6Samuel R. Demaree to Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
were almost unanimously in favor of war: and as generally now blame the tardy prosecution of it. War! how it harrows up the sensibility of the philanthropic mind! But ours seems unavoidable and just. I fear on account of the behavior of
7Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 17 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
would much enlarge the field of their declamations, and that it should not get into their hands cannot but be a subject of some anxiety. tranquility is now my object, and that my mind
may
not be harrowed up by the renewal of contentions, which while I was young I met with the zeal of youth.
8Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
A difference of quite another character gives me more uneasiness. no one feels more painfully, than I do, the separation of friends, & especially when their sensibilities are to be daily harrowed up by Cannibal newspapers. in these cases however I claim from all parties the privilege of Neutrality, and to be permitted to esteem all as I ever did. the harmony which made me happy while at
9From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Query whether “Mr Adams will answer”? “or treat it with Silent Contempt”? I will not at present Answer. I will say to you in Confidence, I can when I will harrow up their Souls, by a very Simple Tale of Truth.
10From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 16 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
You may raise wheat when you will, by ploughing and harrowing deep enough, by plenteous manure, and by early Sowing: But while the Price is depressed by immense importations from the Southward, it never will repay the Expence. Full fifty five Years have I observed enquired, read reflected...