The University of Virginia: Memories of Her Student-life and ProfessorsNeale, 1908 - 501 páginas |
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... entered on the business of life , the duties of which leave no idle time to those disposed to fulfil them , and now , retired , and at the age of seventy - six , I am again a hard stu- dent . Indeed , my fondness for reading and study ...
... entered on the business of life , the duties of which leave no idle time to those disposed to fulfil them , and now , retired , and at the age of seventy - six , I am again a hard stu- dent . Indeed , my fondness for reading and study ...
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... entering public service consisted of ten thousand acres , a fine home and one hundred and fifty slaves , which yielded two thousand dollars annually , while from his law practice came an additional reve- nue of three thousand dollars ...
... entering public service consisted of ten thousand acres , a fine home and one hundred and fifty slaves , which yielded two thousand dollars annually , while from his law practice came an additional reve- nue of three thousand dollars ...
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... entered ( 1760 ) William and Mary College , Williamsburg — the then capital of Virginia , an unpaved village of a thousand inhabitants , but the center of much social , political and educational activity , especially during winters when ...
... entered ( 1760 ) William and Mary College , Williamsburg — the then capital of Virginia , an unpaved village of a thousand inhabitants , but the center of much social , political and educational activity , especially during winters when ...
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... entered with strong determination and bright hopes under the mentorship of his staunch friend , George Wythe . To the study of this profession he devoted five entire years , passing the winters in Williamsburg and the summers at ...
... entered with strong determination and bright hopes under the mentorship of his staunch friend , George Wythe . To the study of this profession he devoted five entire years , passing the winters in Williamsburg and the summers at ...
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... entered amidst foreboding clouds , as public senti- ment throughout the colonies was drifting from the mother country , owing to increased distrust in George III and Parlia- ment . Virginia had already caught the contagion , so that her ...
... entered amidst foreboding clouds , as public senti- ment throughout the colonies was drifting from the mother country , owing to increased distrust in George III and Parlia- ment . Virginia had already caught the contagion , so that her ...
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Página 210 - 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 137 - 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 65 - ... militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 315 - And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Página 20 - 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 65 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Página 44 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Página 119 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs, America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Página 95 - A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so it shall be the latest of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
Página 119 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.