Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson. From Entirely New Materials ...C. Scribner, 1862 - 138 pages |
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... anxious to afford them all the religious privileges they could desire , except night meetings . He could not and would not tolerate them . He grew indig- nant and bitter as he went on to speak of their evil effects , and said there was ...
... anxious to afford them all the religious privileges they could desire , except night meetings . He could not and would not tolerate them . He grew indig- nant and bitter as he went on to speak of their evil effects , and said there was ...
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... anxious to spend as little time as possible in general conversation , so that we might hear as much as possible of Mr. Jefferson from one who had been with him so many years , and must have known him so well . 66 " Give yourself no ...
... anxious to spend as little time as possible in general conversation , so that we might hear as much as possible of Mr. Jefferson from one who had been with him so many years , and must have known him so well . 66 " Give yourself no ...
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... anxious we should settle there . When we crossed the Ohio into Indiana , there was no road at all . We took a pilot , and went to Vincennes . We had no road , only a bridle path . From there we went to Edwardswille , Ill . , where ...
... anxious we should settle there . When we crossed the Ohio into Indiana , there was no road at all . We took a pilot , and went to Vincennes . We had no road , only a bridle path . From there we went to Edwardswille , Ill . , where ...
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... anxious that I should buy there . He advised me to look no fur- ther . He said that with so many large rivers com- ing in near there , and such a rich , fertile country , CHOUTEAU'S FARM . 33 it must some day be a 32 JEFFERSON AT ...
... anxious that I should buy there . He advised me to look no fur- ther . He said that with so many large rivers com- ing in near there , and such a rich , fertile country , CHOUTEAU'S FARM . 33 it must some day be a 32 JEFFERSON AT ...
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... anxious to sell a thousand acres . He said the Frenchman needed every thing but land . I went to see him , and Clarke sent his clerk along with me to inter- pret . He was almost as black as a negro , lived in a low , squatty brick house ...
... anxious to sell a thousand acres . He said the Frenchman needed every thing but land . I went to see him , and Clarke sent his clerk along with me to inter- pret . He was almost as black as a negro , lived in a low , squatty brick house ...
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Page 132 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beatt In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope...
Page 132 - Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock...
Page 132 - Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 118 - Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken ? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
Page 117 - I receive, fellow-citizens and neighbors, with inexpressible pleasure, the cordial welcome you are so good as to give me. Long absent on duties which the history of a wonderful era made incumbent on those called to them, the pomp, the turmoil, the bustle and splendor of office, have drawn but deeper sighs for...
Page 108 - I have had with me for a fortnight a little daughter of Mr. Jefferson's, who arrived here with a young negro girl, her servant, from Virginia. Mr. Jefferson wrote me some months ago that he expected them, and desired me to receive them. I did so, and was amply repaid for my trouble. A finer child of her age I never saw. So mature an understanding, so womanly a behaviour, and so much sensibility, united, are rarely to be met with.
Page 124 - ... year; but about the middle of June the travel would commence from the lower part of the state to the Springs, and then there was a perfect throng of visitors. They travelled in their own carriages, and came in gangs — the whole family, with carriage and riding horses and servants; sometimes three or four such gangs at a time. We had thirty-six stalls for horses, and only used about ten of them for the stock we kept there. Very often all of the rest were full, and I have had to send horses off...
Page 132 - Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Onr hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 135 - I understand and intend the effect of these limitations to be, that the legal estate and actual occupation shall be vested in my said trustees, and held by them in base fee, determinable on the death of my said son-in-law, and the remainder during the same time be vested in my said daughter and her heirs, and of course disposable by her last will, and that at the death of my said son-in-law, the particular estate of the trustees shall be determined, and the remainder, in legal estate, possession,...
Page 87 - Once he was suffering with the toothache ; and once, in returning from his Bedford farm, he had slept in a room where some of the glass had been broken out of the window, and the wind had blown upon him and given him a kind of neuralgia. At all other times he was either reading, writing, talking, working upon some model, or doing something else. Mrs. Randolph was just like her father in this respect. She was always busy. If she wasn't reading or writing, she was always doing something. She used to...