Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson. From Entirely New Materials ...C. Scribner, 1862 - 138 pages |
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... reader - as a farmer , manufacturer , and master ; as a lover of fine horses , hogs , and sheep ; as the enthusiastic cultivator of fruits and flowers ; as the kind neighbor ; the liberal benefactor of the poor ; the participator in the ...
... reader - as a farmer , manufacturer , and master ; as a lover of fine horses , hogs , and sheep ; as the enthusiastic cultivator of fruits and flowers ; as the kind neighbor ; the liberal benefactor of the poor ; the participator in the ...
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... history and in the universal knowledge of his countrymen . But it will doubtless be new to most of my readers , that Thomas Jefferson still survives in all MR . JEFFERSON'S OVERSEER . 15 the minutest details of 14 JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO .
... history and in the universal knowledge of his countrymen . But it will doubtless be new to most of my readers , that Thomas Jefferson still survives in all MR . JEFFERSON'S OVERSEER . 15 the minutest details of 14 JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO .
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... as we rode on , our conversa- tion turned on the distinguished men that Virginia had given to the country and the world . Though I doubt not my readers are as impatient for the I am introduction that was before us as we were.
... as we rode on , our conversa- tion turned on the distinguished men that Virginia had given to the country and the world . Though I doubt not my readers are as impatient for the I am introduction that was before us as we were.
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... . Jefferson , but that he was an uncom monly interesting talker , as the reader shall have occasion to see , for my pencil was soon in requi sition . UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA . 19 Let " You know , 18 JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO .
... . Jefferson , but that he was an uncom monly interesting talker , as the reader shall have occasion to see , for my pencil was soon in requi sition . UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA . 19 Let " You know , 18 JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO .
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... reader with the thousand questions I have asked , but will give the answers in narrative form , as nearly as possible in Capt . Bacon's own language . He has frequently remarked to me , that when he was a boy , there were no such ...
... reader with the thousand questions I have asked , but will give the answers in narrative form , as nearly as possible in Capt . Bacon's own language . He has frequently remarked to me , that when he was a boy , there were no such ...
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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...