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... held by anybody . Wealth was not the trade - mark of a gentleman in Colonial Virginia ; and much of what has been written about the social gulf which separated the smaller landowners from the " Tobacco Lords " is sheer nonsense . Sturdy ...
... held by anybody . Wealth was not the trade - mark of a gentleman in Colonial Virginia ; and much of what has been written about the social gulf which separated the smaller landowners from the " Tobacco Lords " is sheer nonsense . Sturdy ...
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... held to be the social inferior of the man who ate the bread earned in the sweat of somebody else's face . A degrading standard ? Of course it was ; but it did not originate in the southern colonies , and its origin had no connection ...
... held to be the social inferior of the man who ate the bread earned in the sweat of somebody else's face . A degrading standard ? Of course it was ; but it did not originate in the southern colonies , and its origin had no connection ...
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... held his self - respect , his independ- ence , his individuality ; and upon his reserved rights as a man , neither king , nor lord , nor priest , nor fel- low aristocrat might trench , for it was sacred . To protect himself there , he ...
... held his self - respect , his independ- ence , his individuality ; and upon his reserved rights as a man , neither king , nor lord , nor priest , nor fel- low aristocrat might trench , for it was sacred . To protect himself there , he ...
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... held its regular performance . It was Dr. Small who introduced Jefferson to the governor ; and it was Dr. Small who had much to do with forming the mind , shaping the princi- ples of his favorite student . A man of varied learning , Dr ...
... held its regular performance . It was Dr. Small who introduced Jefferson to the governor ; and it was Dr. Small who had much to do with forming the mind , shaping the princi- ples of his favorite student . A man of varied learning , Dr ...
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... held firmly to his dream , and worked it out . On the summit of the hill was built the home , planned in his brain , made almost by his hands- a classic , lovely , imposing home . To be its queen he did bring as his bride one of the ...
... held firmly to his dream , and worked it out . On the summit of the hill was built the home , planned in his brain , made almost by his hands- a classic , lovely , imposing home . To be its queen he did bring as his bride one of the ...
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Page 520 - ... that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties.
Page 523 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 521 - Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Page 521 - Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe ; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others ; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...
Page 522 - ... Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 522 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 522 - About to enter, fellow citizens upon the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently, those which ought to shape its administration.
Page 520 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty...
Page 492 - 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 cisatlantic 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 485 - Few words will be necessary, with good dispositions on your part. 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.