I am in hopes it will arrive a little before I shall, and give me an opportunity of judging whether you have got the better of that want of industry which I began to fear would be the rock on which you would split. Determine never to be idle. No person... The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 1211871 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...year old, gave me great pleasure. I inclose it for your perusal, as I think it will be pleasing to you also. But take care of it, and return it to me...ardent prayer of Yours affectionately, TH. JEFFERSON. To MARTHA JEFFERSON. May 11, 1T8T. I write you, my dear Patsy, from the canal of Languedoc, on which... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...harpsichord might b« sent during the months of April and May, so that I am in hopes it will arrive • little before I shall, and give me an opportunity...is the ardent prayer of Yours affectionately, TH. To MARTHA JEFFERSON. May SI, 17S7. I write you, my dear Patsy, from the canal of Languedoc, on which... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...it will arrive a little before I shall, and give me an opportunity of judging whether you have go: the better of that want of industry which I began...are always doing. And that you may be always doing godl, my dear, is the ardent prayer of Yours affectionately, TH. JEFFESSOX. To MARTHA JEFFERSON. JTaySl.UST.... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 704 pages
...whether you have got the better of that want of industry wh ch 1 began to fear would be the rock oo which you would split. Determine never to be idle....if we are always doing. And that you may be always doj.g gooil, my dear, is the ardent prayer of Yours affectionately, TH. jF.Kn.RSON. To MARTHA JEFFERSON.... | |
| Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...outdone in courtesy by your inferiors." He wrote to his daughter Martha from France, May 5, 1787: " No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any." His last words were, "I resign my soul to God, and my daughter to my country." Among his papers was... | |
| Lewis Henry Boutell - 1891 - 94 pages
...the gospels, of the words of Jesus. Jefferson was parsimonious of his time. " No person," he said, "will have occasion to complain of the want of time...wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." It was in these last years that he renewed his friendship with John Adams, and carried on a correspondence... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 520 pages
...it seems, it is precious to me. When I left Paris I wrote to London to desire that your harpsicord might be sent during the months of April and May,...may be done if we are always doing. And that you may always be doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of, yours affectionately. TO MARTHA JEFFERSON.1... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 534 pages
...it seems, it is precious to me. When I left Paris I wrote to London to desire that your harpsicord might be sent during the months of April and May,...may be done if we are always doing. And that you may always be doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of, yours affectionately. TO MARTHA JEFFERSON.1... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1894 - 516 pages
...it seems, it is precious to me. When I left Paris I wrote to London to desire that your harpsicord might be sent during the months of April and May,...may be done if we are always doing. And that you may always be doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of, yours affectionately. TO MARTHA JEFFERSON.1... | |
| Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...forever !— HORACE MANN. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. — MASON. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled; to-morrow... | |
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