| Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...return, why I ihpuld omit it as if it; did not exift ? Such is the economy of nature, that no inftance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinâ ; of her having formed any link in her great work fo weak as to be broken. To add to this,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...the mammoth, as if it still existed ? I ask in return, why I should- omitit, as if it did not exist ? Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can...having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinft ; of her hav ing formed anylink in her great work so weak as to be broken. To add to this,... | |
| Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1826 - 76 pages
...called by the Indians the big Bufialoe, and by our white inhabitants, the Mammoth. (Page 55,62, 73, and seq.) He maintains the doctrine, " that such is...tinct; of her having formed any link in her great work ao " weak as to be broken." He supports, of course, the noC tion that individuals of the Mammoth are... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...the mammoth, as if it still existed? I ask in return, why I should omit it, as if it did not exist? Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can...having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken. To add to this, the... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...the mammoth, as if it still existed ? I ask in return, why I should omit it, as if it did not exist ? Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can...having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct ; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken. To add to this,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...the mammoth, as if it still existed ? I ask in return, why I should omit it, as if it did not exist ? Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can...having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct ; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken. To add to this,... | |
| 1887 - 788 pages
...insert the mammoth as if it still existed. I ask in return why I should omit it as if it did not exist. Such is the economy of nature that no instance can...produced of her having permitted any one race of her nm'TrmlH to become extinct, of her having formed any IJTiV in her great chain so weak as to be broken.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...in return, why I should omit it, as if it did not exist ? Such is the economy of nature, that [91] no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct ; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken. To add to this,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 pages
...ask in return, why I should omit it, as if it did not exist? Such is the economy of nature, that [91] no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct ; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken. To add to this,... | |
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