 I thank on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired, and have not since acquired.  Thomas Jefferson und das Problem der Sklaverei - Seite 5von Johannes Steffens - 2007 - 48 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | 1872 - 810 Seiten
...Writing to Dr. Priestly, in the midst of one of the political frenzies of a later day, he said : " I thank on my knees Him who directed my early education for having put into my possession this rich source of delight," the ability to read Homer in the original ; and, during a similar paroxysm... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 Seiten
...the dull narrative of the «inc events by Dares Phrygins ; and it is an innocent enjoyment. I 1hunk on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight ; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 Seiten
...dull narrative of the same events by Dares Phrygius ; and it is an innocent enjoyment. I 'hunk on rny knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight: and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 Seiten
...both beyond the dull narrative of the same events by Dares Phrygius ; and it is an innocent enjoyment. I thank on my knees, Him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight ; and I would not exchange it for anything which 1 could then have acquired,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1876 - 36 Seiten
...reads them: — "I enjoy Homer in his own language infinitely better than Pope's translation of him. I thank on my knees Him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight ; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired,... | |
 | 1883 - 684 Seiten
...in science to be at least as justifiable as in architecture, painting, gardening, or the other arts. I thank, on my knees, him who directed my early education for having put into my possession this rich source of delight, and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired and... | |
 | 1918 - 476 Seiten
...studied accordingly. "I thank on my knees," he exclaims in a letter to Dr. Joseph Priestley in 1800, "him who directed my early education for having put into my possession this rich source of delight; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1896 - 544 Seiten
...both beyond the dull narrative of the same events by Dares Phrygius ; & it is an innocent enjoyment. I thank on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight ; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 Seiten
...both beyond the dull narrative of the same events by Darus Phrygius; and it is an innocent enjoyment. I thank on my knees him who directed my early education for having put into my possession this rich source of (delight; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could thus have acquired... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 Seiten
...both beyond the dull narrative of the same events by Darus Phrygius; and it is an innocent enjoyment. I thank on my knees him who directed my early education for having put into my possession this rich source of delight; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could thus have acquired and... | |
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