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I write to you by a special influence while standing at my Desk, I was looking around the world to see if I could find one man, who had arrived, to a state of compleat happiness, eather in the abundance of riches or honour, in those two pursuits most of men, are engaged. while looking for the man of honour, I could think of no man who had arrived to so complete a state, as your self—this leads...
Chemical Apparatus essential to a well furnished Labratory & Lecture Room. Knights improved table furnace $ 30. Forge Bellows, tubes, blow pipes &c. 40 * Small blast furnace for table 10. * Sand heat furnaces to be set on brick work 16. * Bellows table with Lamp & blow pipe 25. Copper still, & Ressigeratory 20 Apparatus for Potassium 10
The University of Virginia Bo t of J Bohn (Books omitted in former Shipment or order’d subsequently) Stephani Thesaurus, Valpy, Parts 30, 31 18/ 1 16 Paris’s Pharmacologia 2 vols 8 vo new ed 30/ 1 6 Euleri Calculus Integralis 3 vols 4 to rasc 4 14 6
By your report to the Legislature I gladly learn the success of your agent in obtaining Professors in England. From a former publication I learnt it was the intention of the trustees to appoint one or more American Professors. As I have seen no notice of such appointments, I take the liberty to mention a name for one of the professorships. Mr. Chester Dewey now Prof. of Mathematics and Natural...
of my Respects Persented to you This Coms Calling on you for your in fermation in Regard who Shd Be our Next preacedent and vise precedent Crofort or g r Janson or addams as for galliton for vice present I think it is a pitty he was ever Namd with M r Crofort for in My Settion of Country The peapel dont a per to wont a furner and it is much more unplessent one that was in The in Surrecttion of...
Une lettre toute de sa main et signée addressée de Monticello à M. de Lormerie. Monticello est le nom de la terre en Virginie. J’y joins deux lettres écrites en 1790 par M. de Lormerie à M. Jefferson; alors ministre du congrès. Il y a apparut qu’elles n’ont pu partir dans le temps. Ce M. de Lormerie étoit un home à projets que j’ai eu occasion de voir quelquefois ce qui m’a paru tres vraiment...
Having had my curiosity excited on a few questions which I consider may be explained by those who are conversant with philosophy and Science in general : ; I have from a knowledge of your extensive researches, taken the liberty to request of you a solution of the following queries. 1 st why is the savage state called a state of nature?, 2 d considering that Adam was the first man & he a...
[ Ed. Note : “ Roberts ,” who wrote under an apparent pseudonym and claimed to be a Revolutionary War veteran, composed a letter to former president James Madison dated Pennsylvania , 1 Sept. 1822. Although Madison ’s copy has not been found, a transcription of it was later sent to TJ. In a five-page document received at Monticello in the summer of 1824, the author blamed Madison for both the...
The maker of the enclosed speech, accompanied Lewis & Clark , when he was an uneducated boy, over the Rocky mountains . The sentiments contained in it, are so much like your own, that a person unknown to you, is tempted to forward it to you, and it is without mr. S. knowledge. I ought perhaps to add, that he accompanied the party of Pryor with the Mandane chief up the
There is scarcely a young man in the United States , who is not desirous of having among his future recollections, that he has shown some mark of respect to the Patriot and Sage of Monticello . The person who takes the liberty of presenting to M r Jefferson the accompanying little work, does it with no other view; and only regrets that his humble character & name oblige him to do it thus...