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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... whole people held out their hands in universal greeting as he retired to Monticello after more than half a century of public service . When he started in the public service he was a rich man . When he left , after more than 60 years ...
... whole people held out their hands in universal greeting as he retired to Monticello after more than half a century of public service . When he started in the public service he was a rich man . When he left , after more than 60 years ...
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... whole people and can not fittingly rest in the exclusive ownership of one individual . The right to go to and from his grave belongs to the unnumbered generations , and the right can not be narrowed down to the rights of one individual ...
... whole people and can not fittingly rest in the exclusive ownership of one individual . The right to go to and from his grave belongs to the unnumbered generations , and the right can not be narrowed down to the rights of one individual ...
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... whole story or the truth concerning it . The story begins 177 years ago . It is not ended yet . Monticello came into the hands of the Jefferson family by grant in 1735 and remained in their possession till two weeks after Mr ...
... whole story or the truth concerning it . The story begins 177 years ago . It is not ended yet . Monticello came into the hands of the Jefferson family by grant in 1735 and remained in their possession till two weeks after Mr ...
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... whole extent of the proj- ect which , it seems , he had at first conceived . That part of the building which was finished has suffered from the suspension of the work , and Mr. Jefferson , who two years since resumed the habits and ...
... whole extent of the proj- ect which , it seems , he had at first conceived . That part of the building which was finished has suffered from the suspension of the work , and Mr. Jefferson , who two years since resumed the habits and ...
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... whole Nation was in tears ; celebra- tions of July the Fourth were turned into deepest mourning , for he died that morning - July 4 , 1826 - upon the fiftieth anniversary of the day he had done so much to make immortal ; and on the day ...
... whole Nation was in tears ; celebra- tions of July the Fourth were turned into deepest mourning , for he died that morning - July 4 , 1826 - upon the fiftieth anniversary of the day he had done so much to make immortal ; and on the day ...
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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.