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Page viii
... Jeffer- sonian scholarship . I have wished only to write a truthful and readable account of the life of a great American citizen , who served his fellow - citizens long and devotedly in public office , and who will continue to serve his ...
... Jeffer- sonian scholarship . I have wished only to write a truthful and readable account of the life of a great American citizen , who served his fellow - citizens long and devotedly in public office , and who will continue to serve his ...
Page 7
... Jeffer- son at the age of eighteen ; but the important fact remains that he had dedicated himself , with a fidelity that never weakened , to the jealous service of the goddess of truth . After his graduation Jefferson began the study of ...
... Jeffer- son at the age of eighteen ; but the important fact remains that he had dedicated himself , with a fidelity that never weakened , to the jealous service of the goddess of truth . After his graduation Jefferson began the study of ...
Page 8
... Jeffer- son did not apply for a license until 1767 , five years after he had entered Wythe's office . Jefferson practised law for seven years , until , as he says in his Memoir , " the Revolution shut up the courts of justice . " He was ...
... Jeffer- son did not apply for a license until 1767 , five years after he had entered Wythe's office . Jefferson practised law for seven years , until , as he says in his Memoir , " the Revolution shut up the courts of justice . " He was ...
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... Jeffer- son was called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of Bunker Hill reached Congress . Lexington and Concord might be explained away as skirmishes , but here was war in grim array , serried ranks of redcoats ...
... Jeffer- son was called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of Bunker Hill reached Congress . Lexington and Concord might be explained away as skirmishes , but here was war in grim array , serried ranks of redcoats ...
Page 57
... Jeffer- son wanted very much to go . The attractions of the " capital city of the world , " its music , art , letters , and science , appealed strongly to the refined tastes and insatiable mental curiosity of the young man of thirty ...
... Jeffer- son wanted very much to go . The attractions of the " capital city of the world , " its music , art , letters , and science , appealed strongly to the refined tastes and insatiable mental curiosity of the young man of thirty ...
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