| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...who were members of them, being absent myself on my mission to France. I returned from that mission in the first year of the new government, having landed...Here, certainly, I found a state of things which, of all I had ever contemplated, I the least expected. I had left France in the first year of her revolution,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...who were members of them, being absent myself on my mission to France. I returned from that mission in the first year of the new government, having landed in Virginia in December, 17S9, and proceeded to New York in March, 1790, to enter on the office of Secretary of State. Here,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...who were members of them, being absent myself on my mission to France. I returned from that mission in the first year of the new government, having landed...December, 1789, and proceeded to New York in March, 1 790, to enter on the office of Secretary of State. Here, certainly, I found a state of things which,... | |
| Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 458 pages
...'he became an opposer of some of the principal measures of the government. He says — " I returned from that mission (to France) in the first year of...Here, certainly, I found a state of things which, of all I had ever contemplated, I the least expected. I had left France in the first year of her revolution,... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 510 pages
...office, he became an opposer of some of the principal measures of the government. He says— " I returned from that mission (to France) in the first year of...landed in Virginia in December, 1789, and proceeded to New-York in March, 1790, to enter on the office of Secretary of State. Here, certainly, I found a state... | |
| Theodore Dwight - History - 1839 - 384 pages
...account, began to carry it into execution in good earnest. " I returned," says he, " from that mission in the first year of the new government, having landed...state. Here certainly I found a state of things which, of all I had ever contemplated, I the least expected. I had left France in the first year of her revolution,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 pages
...who were members of them, being absent myself on my mission to France. I returned from that mission in the first year of the new government, having landed...Here, certainly, I found a state of things which, of all I had ever contemplated, I the least expected. I had left France in the first year of her revolution,... | |
| James Parton - New York (State) - 1858 - 728 pages
...surprise. But let us quote bi« own language : " I returned from the French mission," says Mr. Jefferson, "in the first year of the new government, having landed...Here, certainly, I found a state of things which, of all I had ever contemplated, I the least expected. I had left France in the first year of her Revolution,... | |
| James Alexander Hamilton - History - 1869 - 672 pages
...following statement : Jefferson, says, in Vol. 4, page 446 : " I returned from that mission (to France) in December, 1789, and proceeded to New York, in March,...1790, to enter on the office of Secretary of State, &e., &c. Hamilton's Financial System had then passed. * " Jefferson says this system had two objects... | |
| Education - 1870 - 944 pages
...by order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. The extract is as follows : "I returned from that mission [to France] in the first year of the new government, having landed in Virgiuia it December, 1789, and proceeded to New York in March, 1790, to enter on the office of Secretary... | |
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