Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... qualified to advise or guide me . " The first use that he made of his liberty was to change his school , and to become a pupil of the Rev. James Maury , - an ex- cellent clergyman and scholar , of Huguenot descent , who YOUTH AND TRAINING ...
... qualified to advise or guide me . " The first use that he made of his liberty was to change his school , and to become a pupil of the Rev. James Maury , - an ex- cellent clergyman and scholar , of Huguenot descent , who YOUTH AND TRAINING ...
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... becoming noted , as a schoolmate afterward reported , for scholarship , industry , and shyness . He was a good runner , a keen fox - hunter , and a bold and graceful rider . At the age of sixteen , in the spring of 1760 , he set out on ...
... becoming noted , as a schoolmate afterward reported , for scholarship , industry , and shyness . He was a good runner , a keen fox - hunter , and a bold and graceful rider . At the age of sixteen , in the spring of 1760 , he set out on ...
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... become as worthless to society as they were . But I had the good fortune to become acquainted very early with some characters of very high standing , and to feel the incessant wish that I could ever become · what they were . Under ...
... become as worthless to society as they were . But I had the good fortune to become acquainted very early with some characters of very high standing , and to feel the incessant wish that I could ever become · what they were . Under ...
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... becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle ...
... becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle ...
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... become familiar to them , and in the general upheaval the rights of the people were recognized . A year later , Jefferson wrote to Franklin : " With respect to the State of Virginia , in particular , the people seem to have laid aside ...
... become familiar to them , and in the general upheaval the rights of the people were recognized . A year later , Jefferson wrote to Franklin : " With respect to the State of Virginia , in particular , the people seem to have laid aside ...
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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.