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" The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. "
Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ... - Page 223
by Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 363 pages
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A Tour in America in 1798,1799, and 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of ..., Volume 2

Richard Parkinson - Agriculture - 1805 - 454 pages
...the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic will be made up in happiness and preeminence of government : the mobs of great cities add just...of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of the people which preserve a republic in vigour : ; a degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats...
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A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United ...

Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic, will be made up in happiness...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. U'Bthe manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is...
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A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole ...

Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...materials, and with them their manners an id principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic will be made up in happiness and...strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit ol a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...materials, and with them 172 their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic will be made up in happiness and permanence of government. The molis of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength...
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Familiar Letters on Public Characters, and Public Events, from the Peace of ...

William Sullivan - United States - 1834 - 398 pages
...its healthy parts ; and is a good enough barometer, whereby to measure its degree of corruption." " The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." (Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, p. 240, 241.) " Our commercial dashers, then, have already cost us...
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Familiar Letters on Public Characters, and Public Events: From the Peace of ...

William Sullivan - Federal party - 1834 - 490 pages
...its healthy parts; and is a good enough barometer, whereby to measure its degree of corruption." " The mobs of great cities, add just so much to the support of pore government, as soies do, to the strength of the human body." (Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, p....
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 pages
...to let outsiders do the manufacturing for them. " Let our workshops remain in Europe," he wrote, for "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." 1 \Yith the exception of the Act of 1705, the policy in regard to town building was to build single...
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Philadelphia 1681-1887: A History of Municipal Development

Edward Pease Allinson, Boies Penrose - Philadelphia - 1887 - 468 pages
...enthusiastic admirer of New England institutions, wrote, " Let our workshops remain in Europe ;" for "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."1 Before the Revolution there was not a real city in Virginia. There was the town, for which...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 558 pages
...materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic will be made up in happiness and...permanence of government. The mobs of great cities add just j so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the...
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City Government in the United States

Alfred Ronald Conkling - Municipal government - 1894 - 252 pages
...abroad, that city government in the United States is the one conspicuous failure. Jefferson said, " The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government as sores do to the strength of the human body." Let us hope that good Americans will at once set about to heal these sores. In several cities the sores...
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