Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... French war , and Albemarle was in the debatable land . In the midst of that war , in August , 1757 , Peter Jefferson died suddenly , of a disease which is not recorded , but which was probably produced by fatigue and exposure . He was a ...
... French war , and Albemarle was in the debatable land . In the midst of that war , in August , 1757 , Peter Jefferson died suddenly , of a disease which is not recorded , but which was probably produced by fatigue and exposure . He was a ...
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... French traveler , " the taste for reading is commoner among men of the first rank than in any other part of America ; but the popu- lace is perhaps more ignorant there than elsewhere . " “ The Virginia virtues , " says Mr. Henry Adams ...
... French traveler , " the taste for reading is commoner among men of the first rank than in any other part of America ; but the popu- lace is perhaps more ignorant there than elsewhere . " “ The Virginia virtues , " says Mr. Henry Adams ...
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... French and law Latin , and especially studying Magna Charta and Bracton . - Jeffer- He found time also for riding , for music , and dancing ; and in his twentieth year he became enamored of Miss Rebecca Burwell , a Williamsburg belle ...
... French and law Latin , and especially studying Magna Charta and Bracton . - Jeffer- He found time also for riding , for music , and dancing ; and in his twentieth year he became enamored of Miss Rebecca Burwell , a Williamsburg belle ...
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... French philosophical writers of the eighteenth century , although there is no evidence to that effect ; but he was cer- tainly the first statesman to grasp the idea of democracy as a form of government , just as , at a later day , Walt ...
... French philosophical writers of the eighteenth century , although there is no evidence to that effect ; but he was cer- tainly the first statesman to grasp the idea of democracy as a form of government , just as , at a later day , Walt ...
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... French alliance , though no doubt an ultimate benefit to the colonies , had at first two bad effects : it relaxed the energy of the Americans , who trusted that France would fight their battles for them ; and it stimulated the British ...
... French alliance , though no doubt an ultimate benefit to the colonies , had at first two bad effects : it relaxed the energy of the Americans , who trusted that France would fight their battles for them ; and it stimulated the British ...
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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.