Life of Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United StatesHoughton, Osgood & Company, 1878 - Počet stran: 764 |
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... land , part of it densely wooded , and some of it so steep and rocky as to be unfit for cultivation . The fields near the river were strong land , not yet ( though soon to be ) worn past the profitable culture of tobacco ; but the upper ...
... land , part of it densely wooded , and some of it so steep and rocky as to be unfit for cultivation . The fields near the river were strong land , not yet ( though soon to be ) worn past the profitable culture of tobacco ; but the upper ...
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... land to the westward of the great tobacco - region of Virginia , and gradually worked their way to the possession of a cleared farm , and a few families of slaves . In this manner Peter Jefferson , and his father before him , had ...
... land to the westward of the great tobacco - region of Virginia , and gradually worked their way to the possession of a cleared farm , and a few families of slaves . In this manner Peter Jefferson , and his father before him , had ...
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... land , a kind of liberal profession in a new country . He practised this profession in his native county of Chesterfield , and in all the region trodden by Confederate armies and torn by Federal cannon during the long siege of Richmond ...
... land , a kind of liberal profession in a new country . He practised this profession in his native county of Chesterfield , and in all the region trodden by Confederate armies and torn by Federal cannon during the long siege of Richmond ...
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... land , and certain taxes that yielded three hundred pounds a year . Other benefactors had bequeathed and given it property , until it enjoyed an annual income of three thousand pounds ; which was enough , with the tuition fees , to ...
... land , and certain taxes that yielded three hundred pounds a year . Other benefactors had bequeathed and given it property , until it enjoyed an annual income of three thousand pounds ; which was enough , with the tuition fees , to ...
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... land and three or four slaves , if he be ir dustrious , may live more comfortably , and leave his family in better bread , than such a captain can . * And so the mother thought bette of her project , and George Washington did not ...
... land and three or four slaves , if he be ir dustrious , may live more comfortably , and leave his family in better bread , than such a captain can . * And so the mother thought bette of her project , and George Washington did not ...
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Strana 417 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossne.ss.
Strana 189 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 416 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Strana 261 - ... passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Strana 260 - 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.
Strana 46 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Strana 260 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Strana 436 - Purge that constitution of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would be the most perfect constitution ever devised by the wit of man.' Hamilton paused and said, ' Purge it of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would become an impracticable government : as it stands at present, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect government which ever existed.
Strana 165 - Though a silent member in Congress, he was so prompt, frank, explicit, and decisive upon committees and in conversation, not even Samuel Adams was more so, that he soon seized upon my heart...
Strana 210 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.