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Indeed , to every one of the gentlemen connected with that library I feel indebted
for kindly courtesy . In respect to the source from whence I have obtained the
letters quoted in this volume , I will say that , as a rule , almost every one of them
can ...
Indeed , to every one of the gentlemen connected with that library I feel indebted
for kindly courtesy . In respect to the source from whence I have obtained the
letters quoted in this volume , I will say that , as a rule , almost every one of them
can ...
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... Diffusion of Knowledge , ” and will compare them with the educational system
which one of the Humboldts especially helped to give to Prussia , may well feel
that American statesmanship has exerted a vastly weightier influence on
Germany ...
... Diffusion of Knowledge , ” and will compare them with the educational system
which one of the Humboldts especially helped to give to Prussia , may well feel
that American statesmanship has exerted a vastly weightier influence on
Germany ...
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... man ' s house could be visited by the commissioners of the Inquisition , to
search for prohibited books . Although in some lands even the poor man can feel
that “ his house is his castle , " yet over an immense area in America
commissioners ...
... man ' s house could be visited by the commissioners of the Inquisition , to
search for prohibited books . Although in some lands even the poor man can feel
that “ his house is his castle , " yet over an immense area in America
commissioners ...
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... some opinion can be formed of his character . On Feb . 22d , 1786 , writing to
John Adams he said : “ In the cause of my brethren , I feel myself warmly
interested , and most decidedly side , so far as respects them , against the ...
... some opinion can be formed of his character . On Feb . 22d , 1786 , writing to
John Adams he said : “ In the cause of my brethren , I feel myself warmly
interested , and most decidedly side , so far as respects them , against the ...
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The farmer finds his cares allevi . ated and will feel the more happy under our
constitution , as the Assembly is going to give up its patronage of one set of
priests . * * * Licentiousness , under the mask of patriotism , is our greatest evil ,
as it ...
The farmer finds his cares allevi . ated and will feel the more happy under our
constitution , as the Assembly is going to give up its patronage of one set of
priests . * * * Licentiousness , under the mask of patriotism , is our greatest evil ,
as it ...
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Página 286 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 215 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 115 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 286 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 286 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 248 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Página 357 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Página 268 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Página 62 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
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The Free School Idea in Virginia Before the Civil War: A Phase of Political ... William Arthur Maddox Visualização completa - 1918 |
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Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public Education |
| Autor | John Cleaves Henderson |
| Editora | G.P. Putnam's sons, 1890 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 10 maio 2007 |
| ISBN | 0722229348, 9780722229347 |
| Num. págs. | 387 páginas |
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