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" What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through... "
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787 - Page 171
by Thomas Jefferson - 1894
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...legation to France. But there were not wanting in that Assembly, men of virtue enough to propose, and talents to vindicate this clause. But they saw, that...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...of his countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends: ' What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives...
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson ..., Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...legation to France. But there were not wanting in that Assembly, men of virtue enough to propose, and talents to vindicate this clause. But they saw, that...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...legation to France. But there were not wanting in that Assembly, men of virtue enough to propose, and talents to vindicate this clause. But they saw, that...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T ..., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...this clause. But they saw, that the moment of doing it with success, was not yet arrived, and thal an unsuccessful effort, as too often happens, would...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his owu liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives...
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and,...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial,and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery,...
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Three Years in North America, Volume 2

James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 916 pages
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England and America: A Comparison of the Social and Political ..., Volume 2

Edward Gibbon Wakefield - Colonization - 1833 - 354 pages
..." What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...
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Three Years in North America, Volume 2

James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends : — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives...
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England and America: A Comparison of the Social and Political ..., Volume 2

Edward Gibbon Wakefield - Colonization - 1833 - 362 pages
...impossible to account" The writer of the declaration of American independence has also written — " What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives...
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