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My father, Peter Jefferson |
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The learned Dr. Small; the gay and polished Fauquier |
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Attic wit and chamber music |
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My beloved mentor and foster father |
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A teacher devoted to the rights of man |
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A jury lawyer, but he spoke as Homer wrote |
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At nineteen, plagued by the Devil |
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The Devil and Rebecca Burwell's picture |
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That dull old scoundrel, Lord Coke |
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The young ladies; especially Rebecca |
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Travel might ease love's torments |
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The grand tour first: will Rebecca wait? |
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Philosophizing, but not for our gay acquaintance |
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A pole chair, a pair of keen horses, and Rebecca |
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Rustications, and love squeezes |
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Misadventures on a pleasure tour to New York |
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Bold in the pursuit of knowledge |
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A stiff program of studies |
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But health is worth more than learning |
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A convivial, as well as studious, young lawyer |
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Puppet shows, tygers, horse races, and books |
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The burning of Shadwell in 1770 |
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Once again love's advocate |
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Young Squire of Monticello |
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A piano for the future Mrs. Jefferson |
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Marriage: ten years of unchequered happiness |
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Happily gardening and building at Monticello |
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On books: a defense of fiction |
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Sterne's Sentimental Journey |
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The glow of one warm thought |
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The great eclipse of 1778 from Monticello |
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Music the favorite passion of my soul |
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Architecture in Virginia: a critique |
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Harpers Ferry: a war between rivers and mountains |
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Farmers are God's chosen people |
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Slavery: I tremble for my country |
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An Indian mound on the Rivanna |
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America's natural history |
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New World man not inferior to the European |
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My children: births, and deaths |
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Dreadful suspense closed by catastrophe |
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Loving advice to a motherless daughter |
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Good taste, and the graver sciences |
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Source of happiness henceforth |
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Politics in the royal colony of Virginia |
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Young radicals seize command |
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For continental unity of action |
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The technique of revolution |
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Like a shock of electricity |
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Basic rights of British America |
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty |
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For this pamphlet, `honored' as an arch rebel |
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Meanwhile at Lexington and Concord the die is cast |
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Victorious over timid, cold-water men |
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We fight not for glory or conquest |
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Bunker Hill and those intrepid Yankees |
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To a Tory friend: will it be everlasting avulsion? |
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I speak the sentiments of America |
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Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness |
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Shall America now declare herself independent? |
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Independence decided upon, July 2, 1776 |
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The Declaration approved on July 4th |
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The Declaration as written and as approved |
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An expression of the American mind |
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Writhing a little under criticism |
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Old Doctor Franklin tells a comforting story |
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Small things as well as great |
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The Declaration written in the house of a bricklayer |
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On a plain portable writing-box |
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To sum up: the case against George the Third |
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I pray God that these principles may be eternal |
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Fighting for Man's Inalienable Rights |
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The way opened for a great social revolution |
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A leveling blow at hereditary aristocracy |
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Edmund Pendleton, able opponent |
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Importation of slaves prohibited |
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The struggle against spiritual tyranny |
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Church separated from state |
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But religious freedom not yet achieved |
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The folly of coercing men's minds and consciences |
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Truth can stand by itself |
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The tragic absurdity of uniformity |
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A general attack on the old order |
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Another blow at landed aristocracy |
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The revised code completed |
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A broad mantle protecting mind and conscience |
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The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom |
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A pioneer system of public education |
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Geniuses raked from the rubbish |
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Preach a crusade against ignorance |
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Government for and by all the people |
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Obstructed by jealousy and selfishness |
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The sacred cause of emancipation |
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A God of Justice and exterminating thunder |
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All this a foundation truly republican |
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A bloodless social revolution |
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The British invade, and the Tories make trouble |
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An intercepted courier; offensive defense |
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Benedict Arnold harasses Virginia |
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Five thousand guineas for his capture |
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Knocking at the door of Congress |
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Naked militia, and mutineers |
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Virginia's desperate plight |
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Virginians look to their Washington |
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General Nelson becomes governor |
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A dictator would be treason! |
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Tarleton's raid: I was no Don Quixote |
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Tarleton was genteel; Cornwallis wantonly plundered |
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Virginia wasted by fire and sword |
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Services as war governor unanimously commended |
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After Yorktown: America as I hope to see it |
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In Congress, 1783-84: a new coinage system |
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A stronger government needed |
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Basic principles of federal union |
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One vote alone retained salvery in the territories |
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Considers retiring to Monticello |
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But goes to France as a minister plenipotentiary |
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Behold me on the vaunted scene of Europe! |
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Polite manners and the fine arts |
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Treaty-making with John Adams and Dr. Franklin |
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Succeeds, but does not replace, Benjamin Franklin |
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The author of the Declaration meets `mulish' George III |
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War, not tribute, for the Barbary pirates |
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The pirates must not capture my dear child |
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Conquer Livy, dear Patsy, with American resolution |
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Foreign education: pardon my zealous Americanism |
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I love the French people with all my heart |
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A courtier elegantly presents two pairs of corsets |
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My foolish heart; music and the arts |
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Poetry, and crumbs of science |
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America should be great in science |
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Colonizing European plants and animals |
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Copy-press, and design for a phaeton |
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For Virginia a map, and design for the state capitol |
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The charming Maria Cosway leaves Paris |
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Dialogue between my Head and my Heart |
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The Heart disdains diagrams and crotchets |
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That beautiful day we went to St. Germains |
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Maria might visit our own dear Monticello |
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Americans are not a lawless banditti |
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The Head coldly lectures on friendship |
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The Heart warmly defends itself |
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The weary soldier and the begging woman |
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Hearts, not heads, won our Revolution |
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The pleasures of friendship outweigh the pains |
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Let your letters be brimful of affection |
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Bring me, in return, happy days! |
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A journey to southern France and northern Italy |
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At Nismes: in love with the Maison Quarree |
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Cloudless skies and nightingales in full chorus |
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Privileged orders and the misery of the masses |
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A little rebellion now and then a good thing |
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The constitution of 1787: bloodless reform |
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A bloody revolution begins in France |
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A parting tribute to the French |
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All my wishes end where I hope my days will end |
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Washington's Secretary of State |
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New York City in March of 1790 |
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Mortified by monarchical tendencies |
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Alexander Hamilton's funding plan |
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Assumption of debts of the states |
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The bitter pill sweetened |
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Division into Republicans and Federalists |
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Pen-portrait of Washington |
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The character of Hamilton |
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The Consitution interpreted; farmers vs. stockjobbers |
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A wave a of financial speculation |
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Bursting of the paper bubble |
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Fattening on the follis of the Old World |
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Spain must give us free use of the Mississippi |
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Will France aid us in obtaining Spanish New Orleans? |
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Justice from Britain if we remain neutral |
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Northwestern Indians, and the British |
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Southwestern Indians, and the Spaniards |
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Washington should serve a second term |
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I tremble at the threat of disunion |
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The Thorny Path of Neutrality |
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A vacation tour, botanizing and fishing |
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Planning the new Federal City at Washington |
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Cotton gin and decimals; the greatest of all services |
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Philadelphia bonnets; Socrates on a stick |
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Next year we will sow our cabbages together |
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Subjected to Hamilton's attacks |
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Washington persuades him not to resign |
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Zealous for the rights of man |
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France becomes a republic |
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Bloodshed justified; the spirit of '76 rekindled |
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Party divisions; daily pitted like two cocks |
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Citizen Genet; neutrality a thorny path |
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the grossly arrogant Genet must be recalled |
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Genet condemned generally; British captures |
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I am going back to Virginia |
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In every bud that opens, in every breath that blows |
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The Struggle for Democracy |
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I have laid up my Rosinante in his stall |
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Invention of a world-famous plough |
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Remodeling Monticello; my new trade of nail-making |
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Democratic Societies and the Whiskey Rebellion |
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Jay's Treaty; Anglomen vs. farmers and laborers |
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Elected Vice President in 1796 |
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The Federalists prepare for war with France |
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Gleams of light; the marriage of Maria |
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The Megalonyx Jeffersoni, and Indian vocabularies |
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Steam engines in the home; Parliamentary Manual for Congress |
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Organizing the opposition |
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The X Y Z affair, a body blow to the Republicans |
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Undeclared naval war against France |
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A Tory reign of terror begins |
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But disunion not the remedy |
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The Republicans counter-attack |
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Adams makes peace with the French Republic |
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Presidential candidate in 1800 against John Adams |
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Eternal hostility to every form of tyranny |
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A profession of political faith |
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The Revolution of 1800; `A triumph of principles, Mr. Adams' |
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But victory in perilous jeopardy |
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The tie-vote contest with Aaron Burr |
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I will not enter the Presidency by capitulation |
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Victory, on the thirty-sixth ballot |
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We shall put our Argosy on a republican tack |
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Inaugural address, March 4, 1801 |
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We are all Republicans, all Federalists |
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The sum of good government |
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Creed of our political faith |
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Union through conciliation |
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John Adams' midnight appointments |
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Justice to Alien and Sedition victims |
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No more reform than the nation can bear |
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The Cabinet and Washington City; a charming society |
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Few officeholders die and none resign |
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Federalism entrenched in the bank and the courts |
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Political promises become realisties |
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Diehard Federalists and the New England cleargy |
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Climate and temperament; city-planning |
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The polygraph, and books for the Library of Congress |
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Democratic rules of etiquette |
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Social war with the wife of the British minister |
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Mrs. Merry must eat her suop at home |
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Fatigues, and expenses, of White House hospitality |
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Memoranda for Edmund Bacon, manager at Monticello |
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Peace in Europe; the Barbary pirates dispersed |
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Rapid growth and great prosperity |
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Our noiseless happy course |
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War clouds over Louisiana |
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We must marry ourselves to the British fleet |
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At least we must have New Orleans and the Floridas |
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Spain closes the mouth of the Mississippi |
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James Monroe sent to France |
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Spain reopens the port; peace is my passion |
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The Republic's area doubled at one stroke! |
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We shall get the Floridas too, in good time |
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Federalist grumblers; our foreign policy |
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Cast aside metaphysical subtleties |
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Ratify before Bonaparte changes his mind |
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I confess, it is a great achievement |
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Amid these trimuphs, the death of Maria |
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Fruits of the Revolution of 1800 |
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Tory reactionaries, red and white |
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Candidate for a second term |
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For a third term only if monarchy threatens |
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Overwhelmingly re-elected in 1804 |
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Troubled relations with Spain |
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An attempt at further expansion |
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British captures and impressments |
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Rejection of an impossible British treaty |
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The conspiracy of former Vice President Burr |
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Capture of `Emperor Aaron the First' |
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The Federalists make Burr's cause their own |
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John Marshall acquits Burr: no overt act of treason proved |
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Confidence in the people, and a people's army |
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Meanwhile, peace and unprecedented prosperity |
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Explorations of `our continent' |
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Mammoth bones in the White House |
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A gold medal; and flower gardens at Monticello |
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Mishaps on a journey; a grandchild learns to write |
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Horn-shaking political animals |
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No third term: I am panting for retirement |
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With hands as clean as they are empty |
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British outrage on the warship Chesapeake |
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`Reparation for the past, and security for the future' |
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It is mortifying to wish success to Bonaparte |
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Britain insists on impressments and issues new edicts |
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The whole world interdicted by the belligerents |
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Embargo of 1807, the last card short of war |
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Federalist merchants oppose and evade the Embargo |
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Individual rights must yield to the social good |
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The people approve, and elect Madison president |
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Pressed by the belligerents to the very wall |
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The Embargo superseded by nonintercourse |
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A prisoner released from his chains |
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To my neighbors of Albemarle |
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My farms, my garden, and my grandchildren |
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Albemarle soil and neighbors; contour ploughing |
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I am not afraid of inventions: ploughs and submarines |
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Imported sheep, and my household manufactures |
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I have indeed two great measures at heart |
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Public libraries and an academical village |
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Mathematics was every my favorite study |
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All my old affections revived for Honest John Adams |
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We rode through the storm with heart and hand |
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Ahead on the score of progency |
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Each generation should govern itself |
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Religion and morality: social good the test of virtue |
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The whimsies and jargon of Plato |
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America has a hemisphere to itself |
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Peace is our principle and our interest |
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The last hope of human liberty |
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Tory England forces the issue of war or submission |
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The War of 1812, a second war for independence |
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Land defeats and sea victories |
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The downfall of Bonaparate |
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England makes the war one of conquest |
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We shall not flinch from enemies without or within |
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The nucleus of the Library of Congress |
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Victories on both land and sea |
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The cement of Union is in our heart-blood |
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Future Anglo-American fraternity |
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I steer my bark with Hope ahead and Fear astern |
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Meanwhile, good wines, science, and twilight walks |
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All our inquiries end in four words: `Be just and good' |
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The creed of a progressive |
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Knowledge is power, safety, and happiness |
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Once again aided by Madison and Monroe |
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My bantling of forty years' nursing |
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Making the dream a reality |
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Hard times, and the fortitude of an Epicurean |
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Daily routine at seventy-six |
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My biography is in my letters |
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A patriarch writes to Maria Cosway |
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I bid adieu to portraits and especially life masks |
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The Missouri question: like a fire-bell in the night |
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There are means other than the cannon |
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American, and the Americas, united |
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Cooperation with England for New World security |
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The last act of usefulness I can render |
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A father's worry, pride and hope |
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The opening of the University |
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Times and methods change but not the rights of man |
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America's march of civilization |
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With the University I am closing the last scenes of life |
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The closing scenes clouded by financial distress |
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A source of felicity never otherwise known |
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Serenity and love on the mountaintop |
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The fiftieth July 4th, a deathbed adieu, and my epitaph |
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