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A Discourse on the Character and Services of Thomas Jefferson: More ... - Page 9
by Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1826 - 67 pages
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Notes on the State of Virginia

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,...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

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,...
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A Discourse on the Character and Services of Thomas Jefferson, More ...

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...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

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...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies ...

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,...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies ...

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,...
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 13

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1885 - 670 pages
...usual boldness of one who reaches a rash conviction, he did not hesitate to record his rash belief that "such is the economy of nature that no instance...having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct." An opinion like that appears ludicrous indeed to a modern scientist, but it is not nearly...
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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 1

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....
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

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,...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

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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