 Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Seite 283von Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1896 - 750 Seiten
...released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by...the most consoling proofs of public approbation." HOME LIFE AND HOSPITALITY. Jefferson's subsequent life at Monticello was very similar to that of Washington... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 Seiten
...released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...the most consoling proofs of public approbation." Jefferson reached Monticello on March I5th. The usual discomforts of the journey inseparable from the... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 Seiten
...released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...me the most consoling proofs of public approbation. (To Dupont de Nemours, 1809. CV, 432.) REVENUE. — Is it consistent with good policy or free government... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1901 - 186 Seiten
...prisoner released from his chains feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by...myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions." Though no longer in office, Jefferson remained till his death the chief personage in the United States,... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1909 - 902 Seiten
...SURFACE, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Geography. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. " Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight." — JEFFERSON. The biography of no American has been more thoroughly studied in the light of his political... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 582 Seiten
...lay in the discovery and the setting forth of new truths. Jefferson wrote to a correspondent, "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight," but he was likewise impressed with the fact that there was a relationship between science and republican... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 594 Seiten
...lay in the discovery and the setting forth of new truths. Jefferson wrote to a correspondent, "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight," but he was likewise impressed with the fact that there .was a relationship between science and republican... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1186 Seiten
...in the discovery and the setting forth of new truths. Jefferson wrote to a correspondent, " Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight," but he was likewise impressed with the fact that there was a relationship between science and republican... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 Seiten
...from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles 12. 258. of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...me the most consoling proofs of public approbation. RETURNING to the scenes of my birth and early life, to the society of those with whom I was raised,... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1907 - 682 Seiten
...released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by...the most consoling proofs of public approbation." Jefferson's subsequent life at Monticello was very similar to that of Washington at Mount Vernon. His... | |
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