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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2010-10-03 20:01
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TJE Original Title: 
Workhouse of Nature

"And our own dear Monticello...How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"
- Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12 October 1786[1]

Footnotes

  • 1. PTJ, 10:447. Polygraph copy at the Library of Congress.
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Maria Cosway (Engraving)