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... paid com- pliments with the skill of a courtier , but there are only two glimpses of humor in all his correspond- ence . One of them is an anecdote of Arthur Lee , who , he says , was a most " disputatious " man and " always ...
... paid com- pliments with the skill of a courtier , but there are only two glimpses of humor in all his correspond- ence . One of them is an anecdote of Arthur Lee , who , he says , was a most " disputatious " man and " always ...
Page 32
... paid forty shillings for the marriage - license ; gave five pounds to the Reverend Mr. Coutts , the minister who mar- ried them ; and then borrowed twenty shillings from the parson before the close of the day . He gave ten shillings to ...
... paid forty shillings for the marriage - license ; gave five pounds to the Reverend Mr. Coutts , the minister who mar- ried them ; and then borrowed twenty shillings from the parson before the close of the day . He gave ten shillings to ...
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... paid , which was very considerable , was about equal to my own patrimony , and consequently doubled the ease of our circumstances . " Although everything that concerned her has an interest , we know very little about Mrs. Jefferson ...
... paid , which was very considerable , was about equal to my own patrimony , and consequently doubled the ease of our circumstances . " Although everything that concerned her has an interest , we know very little about Mrs. Jefferson ...
Page 41
... raised the money for him , " continued Bacon , " and the next day paid him two hundred dollars for Edy . She was a little girl four years old . He was finally unable to meet his obligations , failed completely 41 JEFFERSON'S FAMILY.
... raised the money for him , " continued Bacon , " and the next day paid him two hundred dollars for Edy . She was a little girl four years old . He was finally unable to meet his obligations , failed completely 41 JEFFERSON'S FAMILY.
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... paid the creditors what was lacking out of his own pocket to save the family honor . He was also the literary executor of his grandfather , edited his correspondence , and took charge of his manu- scripts . At his grandfather's request ...
... paid the creditors what was lacking out of his own pocket to save the family honor . He was also the literary executor of his grandfather , edited his correspondence , and took charge of his manu- scripts . At his grandfather's request ...
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Page 330 - 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...
Page 81 - I will now add what I do not like. First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations.
Page 338 - I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with his providence, and our riper years with his wisdom and power...
Page 314 - Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Page 297 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 337 - Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss. And if to the dead it is permitted to care for the things of this world, every action of your life will be under my regard. Farewell.
Page 91 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds.
Page 321 - I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
Page 331 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Page 294 - But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature...