 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1826 - 92 pages
...afterwards, that is, during 1781 and 1782, before the termination of the revolutionary war, were,written his celebrated notes on Virginia. A few copies were...The work purports to have been written in answer to que- I ries proposed to the author, by a foreigner of distinction / / then residing in the country.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...written in Virginia, in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected .and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the author, by a foreigner of distinction, then residing amongst us. The subjects are all treated imperfectly ; some scarcely touched on. To apologize for this... | |
 | Obadiah Rich - America - 1835 - 444 pages
...were written in Virginia, in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the author, by a foreigner of distinction, then resident among us. The subjects are ah treated imperfectly; lome scarcely touched on. To apologize... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...were written in Virginia in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the Author, by a Foreigner of Distinction, then residing among us. The subjects are all treated imperfectly ; some scarcely touched on. To apologize for this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 pages
...were written in Virginia in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the Author, by a Foreigner of Distinction, then residing among us. The subjects are all treated imperfectly ; some scarcely touched on. To apologize for this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...were written in Virginia in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the Author, by a Foreigner of Distinction, 1hen residing a-nong us. The subjects are all treated imperfectly ; some scarcely touched on. To apologize... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 574 pages
...were written in Virginia in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the author, by a Foreigner of Distinction, then residing among us. The subjects are all treated imperfectly; some scarcely touched on. To apologize for this... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - Literary Collections - 2008 - 653 pages
...were written in Virginia in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the Author, by a Foreigner of Distinction, then residing among us" (Jefferson 1982, 2). Jefferson's statement reinforces what the book's structure implies,... | |
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The following Notes were written in Virginia in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the Author, by a Foreigner of Distinction, then residing among us. The subjects are all treated... 