Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... constituted the wealth and were inhabited by the aristocracy of the colony . Almost every planter lived near a river and had his own wharf , whence a schooner carried his tobacco to London VIRGINIA IN JEFFERSON'S DAY.
... constituted the wealth and were inhabited by the aristocracy of the colony . Almost every planter lived near a river and had his own wharf , whence a schooner carried his tobacco to London VIRGINIA IN JEFFERSON'S DAY.
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Henry Childs Merwin. wharf , whence a schooner carried his tobacco to London , and brought back wines , silks , velvets , guns , saddles , and shoes . The small proprietors of land were com- paratively few in number , and the whole ...
Henry Childs Merwin. wharf , whence a schooner carried his tobacco to London , and brought back wines , silks , velvets , guns , saddles , and shoes . The small proprietors of land were com- paratively few in number , and the whole ...
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... carrying out this purpose ; and in a short time the stream , upon which before a bark canoe would hardly have floated , was made available for the transpor- tation of farm produce to the James River , and thence to the sea . In 1766 ...
... carrying out this purpose ; and in a short time the stream , upon which before a bark canoe would hardly have floated , was made available for the transpor- tation of farm produce to the James River , and thence to the sea . In 1766 ...
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... site Elk Island in the James River , destroyed the growing crops , burned all the barns and fences , carried off " as was to be expected , " said Mr. Jefferson the cattle and horses , and committed 66 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... site Elk Island in the James River , destroyed the growing crops , burned all the barns and fences , carried off " as was to be expected , " said Mr. Jefferson the cattle and horses , and committed 66 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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... carried off , also , about thirty slaves . " Had this been to give them freedom , " wrote Jefferson , " he would have done right ; but it was to consign them to inevitable death from the smallpox and putrid fever , then raging in his ...
... carried off , also , about thirty slaves . " Had this been to give them freedom , " wrote Jefferson , " he would have done right ; but it was to consign them to inevitable death from the smallpox and putrid fever , then raging in his ...
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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.