 | Meteorology - 1836 - 950 pages
...dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition, seems to have been... | |
 | 1836 - 1042 pages
...dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...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 - Patent laws and legislation - 1837 - 408 pages
...dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition, seems to have been... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 630 pages
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of manfand improvement of his condition, seems to have... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 636 pages
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - History - 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 - Conduct of life - 1900 - 1082 pages
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...his taper at mine, receives light without darkening mine. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...receives instruction himself without lessening mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe,... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...receives instruction himself without lessening mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe,... | |
 | 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...should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have... | |
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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. 
