Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... characters of a type so high that the world has hardly seen a better . Had he been born in Europe , Jefferson would doubt- less have devoted himself to music , or to architecture , or to literature , or to science , 24 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... characters of a type so high that the world has hardly seen a better . Had he been born in Europe , Jefferson would doubt- less have devoted himself to music , or to architecture , or to literature , or to science , 24 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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... Europe , and as soon as the envoys reached Paris , they drew up a treaty such as they hoped might be negotiated . It has been described as " the first serious attempt ever made to conduct the intercourse of nations on Christian ...
... Europe , and as soon as the envoys reached Paris , they drew up a treaty such as they hoped might be negotiated . It has been described as " the first serious attempt ever made to conduct the intercourse of nations on Christian ...
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... Europe . To James Monroe he wrote in June , 1785 " The pleasure of the trip [ to Europe ] will be less than you expect , but the utility greater . It will make you adore your own country , its soil , its climate , its equality , laws ...
... Europe . To James Monroe he wrote in June , 1785 " The pleasure of the trip [ to Europe ] will be less than you expect , but the utility greater . It will make you adore your own country , its soil , its climate , its equality , laws ...
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... Europe , " he wrote to General Washington , in 1788 , " whose tal- ents or merits would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of America . " But for the French race Jefferson had an affinity . He was glad to live with ...
... Europe , " he wrote to General Washington , in 1788 , " whose tal- ents or merits would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of America . " But for the French race Jefferson had an affinity . He was glad to live with ...
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... it was in the British chan- nel . How brilliantly Decatur and his gallant comrades carried out this policy , and how at last the tardy naval powers of Europe fol- lowed an example which they ought to have set , 124 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... it was in the British chan- nel . How brilliantly Decatur and his gallant comrades carried out this policy , and how at last the tardy naval powers of Europe fol- lowed an example which they ought to have set , 124 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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Página 147 - Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.
Página 53 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 109 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 124 - It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Página 56 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 53 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Página 158 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 54 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Página 81 - Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government was evidently the favorite sentiment. An apostate I could not be, nor yet a hypocrite; and I found myself for the most part the only advocate on the republican side of the question...
Página 71 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.