Life of Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United StatesHoughton, Osgood & Company, 1878 - Počet stran: 764 |
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... once its blood and its fortunes . The material point was the renewal of the blood , which brings with it the brain , the stamina , and the self - control by which great houses are founded , and all great things are done . If at the ...
... once its blood and its fortunes . The material point was the renewal of the blood , which brings with it the brain , the stamina , and the self - control by which great houses are founded , and all great things are done . If at the ...
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... once from their sides , and stand them upright . When surveying in the wilderness , he could tire out his assistants , and tire out his mules ; then eat his mules , and still press on , sleeping alone by night in a hollow tree , to the ...
... once from their sides , and stand them upright . When surveying in the wilderness , he could tire out his assistants , and tire out his mules ; then eat his mules , and still press on , sleeping alone by night in a hollow tree , to the ...
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... about the time of Jefferson's birth , was evidently a welcome event ; for a glebe of four hundred acres was at once set off for him , and so spa- cious a parsonage was built , that he was able 2 JEFFERSON'S SCHOOL - LIFE . 17.
... about the time of Jefferson's birth , was evidently a welcome event ; for a glebe of four hundred acres was at once set off for him , and so spa- cious a parsonage was built , that he was able 2 JEFFERSON'S SCHOOL - LIFE . 17.
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... Once a week he had a musical party at the palace , to which the guests brought their instruments . Jefferson was regularly present with his violin ; and at these parties , for the first time in his life perhaps , he heard music ...
... Once a week he had a musical party at the palace , to which the guests brought their instruments . Jefferson was regularly present with his violin ; and at these parties , for the first time in his life perhaps , he heard music ...
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... once to town , receive his sentence , and end this awful suspense ? Inclination prompted this course ; but , if she rejected him , he would be " ten times more wretched than ever . " In this dilemma , he had some thoughts of going to ...
... once to town , receive his sentence , and end this awful suspense ? Inclination prompted this course ; but , if she rejected him , he would be " ten times more wretched than ever . " In this dilemma , he had some thoughts of going to ...
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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.