 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 598 pages
...conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know...assured that I shall leave with you my last affections. TO NATHANIEL MAOON j. MSS. MONTICELLO Feb. 21. 26. How could you think, my dear friend, of appealing... | |
 | David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth - 1908 - 614 pages
...conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know...assured that I shall leave with you my last affections." Cabell during the remainder of the legislative session ( 1825) was much interested in advancing Mr.... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - American literature - 1910 - 570 pages
...his university, and put his papers in order, entrusting his future to Madison, to whom he wrote : " You have been a pillar of support through life. Take care of me when dead." This effort at self-protection was largely the result of his dislike of Marshall's " Life of Washington,"... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - Monticello (Va.) - 1912 - 90 pages
...conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it — one which, protected by truth, can never...assured that I shall leave with you my last affections. Later, on June 24, 1826, he wrote a long letter in reply to an invitation to attend the fiftieth celebration... | |
 | New England - 1897 - 782 pages
...conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interests and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know...our lives have been devoted. To myself you have been n pillar of support through life. Take 192 193 THOMAS JEFFERSON. From an original painting by Gilbert... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Political parties - 1925 - 652 pages
...Morse must have been conscious of this in referring to Jefferson's anxiety expressed to Madison, " To myself you have been a pillar of support through life. Take care of me when dead." The letter to James Madison (February 17, 1826), from which these words have been quoted is here given... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Tariff - 1926 - 352 pages
...general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know 1 reproach, it is that to which our lives have been...assured that I shall leave with you my last affections." This letter to Madison (both had been president of the United States, each during eight years) is an... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...course they had pursued together during their half century of friendship. To myself, he concludes, you have been a pillar of support through life. "Take...assured that I shall leave with you my last affections." At the end of March he answered a letter from President JQ Adams, who had sent him a copy of his Message... | |
 | Education - 1962 - 80 pages
...conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know...it is that to which our lives have been devoted." What Jefferson was describing was the one basic trend that runs throughout the history of this country.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness ... it is that to which our lives have been devoted. To...and be assured that I shall leave with you my last affections.95 My beloved daughter and grandchildren There are greater doubts than I had apprehended... | |
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To myself you have been a pillar of support through life. Take care of me when dead, and be assured that I shall leave with you my last affections. 
