Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... Less is known of Jefferson's mother ; but he derived from her a love of music , an extraordinary keenness of sus- ceptibility , and a corresponding refinement of taste . His father's death left Jefferson his own master . In one of his ...
... Less is known of Jefferson's mother ; but he derived from her a love of music , an extraordinary keenness of sus- ceptibility , and a corresponding refinement of taste . His father's death left Jefferson his own master . In one of his ...
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... less than three hours a day . " At this period he was somewhat of a dandy , very particular about his clothes and equipage , and devoted , as indeed he remained through life , to fine horses . Virginia im- ported more thoroughbred ...
... less than three hours a day . " At this period he was somewhat of a dandy , very particular about his clothes and equipage , and devoted , as indeed he remained through life , to fine horses . Virginia im- ported more thoroughbred ...
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... less than fifteen hours a day . This intense application reduced the time of his college course by one half ; and after the second winter at Williamsburg he went home with a degree in his pocket , and a volume of Coke upon Lytleton in ...
... less than fifteen hours a day . This intense application reduced the time of his college course by one half ; and after the second winter at Williamsburg he went home with a degree in his pocket , and a volume of Coke upon Lytleton in ...
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... 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.
... 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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... less diffi- cult . In front of the house three long ter- races , terminating in small pavilions , were constructed ; and upon the northern terrace , or in its pavilion , Jefferson and his friends used to sit on summer nights gazing off ...
... less diffi- cult . In front of the house three long ter- races , terminating in small pavilions , were constructed ; and upon the northern terrace , or in its pavilion , Jefferson and his friends used to sit on summer nights gazing off ...
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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.