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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland. 31 Mar. 1809.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Letter to Louis Bonaparte. 6 May 1807.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen [Note on the establishment of Écouen]. 15 May 1807.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Madame de Stael

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Madame de Stael. Corinne ou L'Italie [Corinne or Italy]. Paris, 1807, bk. 18, ch. 5, st. 4.

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Madame de Stael. Corinne, or Italy, translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 18, ch. 5, st. 4.

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Blake, William. Letter to Thomas Butts. Aug. 1803.

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Blake, William. "[To] Mr. Butts August 16, 1803 'O why was I born with a different face.'" The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, st. 2.

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly ('I've watch you')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Wordsworth, William. Lyrical ballads, with Other Poems. Vol. 1, Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802, preface.

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Wordsworth, William. "Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800/1802)." Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems. Wordsworth Editions, 2002.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, introduction to canto 1, st. 1.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 2, st. 30.

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Adams, John Quincy. "An Oration, Delivered at Plymouth." University Commemoration of the First Landing of Our Ancestors At That Place. 22 Dec. 1802, Plymouth, MA, USA.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Charles-Guillaume Etienne

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Étienne, Charles-Guillaume. Bruïs et Palaprat. 1807, Théâtre-Français, Paris, France, sc. 3.

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 2 Nov. 1800.

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Adams, John. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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Campbell, Thomas. The Turkish Lady. c. 1840.

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De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene. Genie du christianisme [The Genius of Christianity]. Paris: Chez Migneret, 1802, pt. 2, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst,
Rees, and Orme, 1805, canto 6, st. 2.

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Moore, Thomas. "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms." A Selection of Irish Melodies. London: J. Power's, 1808.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Norvell. 11 June 1807.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Norvell, June 11, 1807." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library Classics, 1998.