The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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6080. OFFICES, Burthens.—
In a virtuous
government, and more especially in times
like these, public offices are, what they should
be, burthens to those appointed to them,
which it would be wrong to decline, though
foreseen to bring with them intense labor,
and great private loss.—
To Richard Henry Lee.
Ford ed., ii, 192.
(Wg.
1779)
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