Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... force of law to the eldest son , so that the great properties were kept intact . There were no townships and no town meetings . The political unit was the parish ; for the Episcopal church was the es- tablished church , a state ...
... force of law to the eldest son , so that the great properties were kept intact . There were no townships and no town meetings . The political unit was the parish ; for the Episcopal church was the es- tablished church , a state ...
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... force upon the poor , and the right of voting was confined to freeholders . There was no sys- tem of public schools , and the great mass of the people were ignorant and coarse , but morally and physically sound , a good sub- structure ...
... force upon the poor , and the right of voting was confined to freeholders . There was no sys- tem of public schools , and the great mass of the people were ignorant and coarse , but morally and physically sound , a good sub- structure ...
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... force and fluency , but his voice was not suitable for public speaking , and soon became husky . More- over , Jefferson had an intense repugnance to the arena . He shrank with a kind of nervous horror from a personal contest , and hated ...
... force and fluency , but his voice was not suitable for public speaking , and soon became husky . More- over , Jefferson had an intense repugnance to the arena . He shrank with a kind of nervous horror from a personal contest , and hated ...
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... force to - day . At this session Jefferson also drew an act for establishing courts of law in Virginia , the royal courts having necessarily passed out of existence when the Declaration of Independence was adopted . Moreover , he set on ...
... force to - day . At this session Jefferson also drew an act for establishing courts of law in Virginia , the royal courts having necessarily passed out of existence when the Declaration of Independence was adopted . Moreover , he set on ...
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... force , forms a thrilling chapter in the history of the American Revolution . Many indeed of Jefferson's constituents censured him as being over - zealous in his support of the army of Gates . He stripped Virginia , they said , of ...
... force , forms a thrilling chapter in the history of the American Revolution . Many indeed of Jefferson's constituents censured him as being over - zealous in his support of the army of Gates . He stripped Virginia , they said , of ...
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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.