Workhouse of Nature

From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia

"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: [1].
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