Public Ownership of Monticello: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives of S. Con. Res. 24, Wednesday, July 24, 1912 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 78 páginas |
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... beautiful Capital City . In the heart of it a grateful Nation has erected a monument to the memory of one of them . But , I say , in all this city of glorious marble and trees there is not an outdoor monument or shaft erected in honor ...
... beautiful Capital City . In the heart of it a grateful Nation has erected a monument to the memory of one of them . But , I say , in all this city of glorious marble and trees there is not an outdoor monument or shaft erected in honor ...
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... beautiful and diversified forms of mountains , in the whole chain of which not one resembles another . March 4 , 1801 , Jefferson was inaugurated President , the first ceremony of the kind the Capital had ever seen , the simplest and ...
... beautiful and diversified forms of mountains , in the whole chain of which not one resembles another . March 4 , 1801 , Jefferson was inaugurated President , the first ceremony of the kind the Capital had ever seen , the simplest and ...
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... beautiful stories about it all ? I remember that night , three years ago , when Mr. Levy invited us to dinner . Somehow it did not enter my mind that I was going to visit him . He did not seem to me to be a part of Monticello . Thomas ...
... beautiful stories about it all ? I remember that night , three years ago , when Mr. Levy invited us to dinner . Somehow it did not enter my mind that I was going to visit him . He did not seem to me to be a part of Monticello . Thomas ...
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... beautiful thing he could present to the people of the United States Monticello , holding in its bosom this thing , this consecrated thing which had kindled a great light in the world . Monticello had no money value and should not be ...
... beautiful thing he could present to the people of the United States Monticello , holding in its bosom this thing , this consecrated thing which had kindled a great light in the world . Monticello had no money value and should not be ...
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... beautiful courtesy , and with tender regret that I am unable to assist you in your great undertaking , and with best wishes for perfect success , I am , Sincerely , yours , LETITIA G. STEVENSON . ( Mrs. A. E. Stevenson . ) S EAST SIXTY ...
... beautiful courtesy , and with tender regret that I am unable to assist you in your great undertaking , and with best wishes for perfect success , I am , Sincerely , yours , LETITIA G. STEVENSON . ( Mrs. A. E. Stevenson . ) S EAST SIXTY ...
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Página 32 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 12 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 9 - Mr. Jefferson is the first American who has consulted the fine arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.
Página 12 - Reflecting on these things, the practice occurred to me, of selling, on fair valuation, and by way of lottery, often resorted to before the Revolution to effect large sales, and still in constant usage in every State for individual as well as corporation purposes.
Página 12 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 10 - ... of a hundred miles, far beyond James River; and on the left as far as Maryland, on the other side of the Potomac. Through some intervals formed by the irregular summits of the Blue Mountains, you discover the Peaked Ridge, a chain of mountains placed between the Blue and North Mountains, another more distant ridge. But in the back part the prospect is soon interrupted by a mountain more elevated than that on which the house is seated. The bounds of the view on this point, at so small a distance,...
Página 9 - No sound to break the silence, but a brook That bubbling winds among the weeds : no mark Of any human shape that had been there, Unless a skeleton of some poor wretch, Who had long since, like me, by love undone, Sought that sad place out to despair and die in.
Página 11 - ... example was most salutary to withdraw, and who, while he dedicates the evening of his glorious days to the pursuits of science and literature, shuns none of the humbler duties of private life, but, having...
Página 12 - Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia; because by these as testimonials that I have lived I wish most to be remembered.
Página 12 - The friendship which has subsisted between us, now half a century, and the harmony of our political principles and pursuits, have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period.