 | John Redman Coxe, Thomas Cooper - 1813 - 532 pages
...dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less because every oilier possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...taper at mine receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globa for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | 1836 - 950 pages
...it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses...taper at mine receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | 1836 - 1042 pages
...it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses...taper at mine receives light without darkening me. That idea« should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1837 - 408 pages
...it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses...taper at mine receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 630 pages
...it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 pages
...it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 pages
...function of the United States Patent Office. "He who receives an idea from me," wrote Thomas Jefferson, " receives instruction himself without lessening mine...his taper at mine receives light without darkening mine." An idea once made known is subject to human control only when incorporate, and therefore it... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...consider it as a renewed extension of our lease, shall live in more confidence and die in more hope. HE who receives an idea from me, receives instruction...taper at mine receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
 | 1942 - 584 pages
...it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction... | |
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He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine ; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. 
