 I forget for a while the hoary winter of age, when we can think of nothing but how to keep ourselves warm, and how to get rid of our heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once.  The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson - Stran 378avtor: Sarah Nicholas Randolph - 1871 - 432 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1824 - 828 strani
...heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of {ill at once. Against this tedium vita, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which, indeed, I should have better managed some 30 or 40 years ago, but whose easy amble is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an Octogenary... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 strani
...heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once. Against this tedium vittE, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which, indeed, I should have better managed some tliirty or forty years ago ; but whose easy amble is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 strani
...MonUceUo, October 12, 1823. DEAR SIR, I do not write with the ease which your letter of September the 18th supposes. Crippled wrists and fingers make writing...better managed some thirty or forty years ago ; but whpse easy amble is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an octogenary rider. This is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 strani
...things in tfie recollection ot' ancient times, when youth and health made happiness out of everything. I forget for a while the hoary winter of age, when...managed some thirty or forty years ago ; but whose easy aiiu.le is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an octogenary rider. This is the establishment... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 strani
...heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once. Against this tedium vita, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which,...still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an octogeuary rider. This is the establishment of a University, on a scale more comprehensive, and in... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 980 strani
...at once." He then goes on to speak of a " hobby on which he was fortunately mounted ;" this being " the establishment of a university on a scale more...healthy and central, than our old William and Mary." The University of Virginia was indeed the work of Jefferson's last years, and in the epitaph which... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 968 strani
...all at once." He then goes on to speak of a " hobby on which he was fortunately mounted;" this being "the establishment of a university on a scale more...healthy and central, than our old William and Mary." The University of Virginia was indeed the work of Jefferson's last years, and in the epitaph which... | |
 | 1897 - 832 strani
...the friendly hands of death shall rid us of all at once. I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which I should have better managed some thirty or forty...sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an octogenary writer. This is the establishment of a University on a scale more comprehensive than William and Mary;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 strani
...heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once. Against this tedium vita, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which,...This is the establishment of a University, on a scale rn™--° comprehensive, and in a country more healthy and central than our old William and Mary, which... | |
 | David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth - 1908 - 614 strani
...heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once. Against this tedium vitas, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which,...and in a country more healthy and central than our William and Mary, which these obstacles have long kept in a state of langor and inefficiency. But the... | |
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