Jefferson
Cited as Jefferson. — 9 quotations
Converge
The mountains converge into a single ridge.
Exercise
exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature.
Partisan
Both sides had their partisans in the colony.
Persuasion
Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.
Right
All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Silk-stocking
[They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers.
Sovereign
No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.
Sue
The Indians were defeated and sued for peace.
Swell
Little River affords navigation during a swell to within three miles of the Miami.