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" You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their... "
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Page 256
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson ..., Volume 3

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to...peaceable minds. Tranquillity is the old man's milk. 1 go to enjoy it in a few days, and to exchange the roar and tumult of bulls and bears, for the prattle...
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to...enjoyment, but it is afflicting to peaceable minds. The following charming family letters will be read with pleasure, I feel sure : To Mary Jefferson....
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The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...

Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to...milk. I go to enjoy it in a few days, and to exchange th« roar and tumult of bulls and bears, for the prattle of my grandchildren, and senile rest. Be these...
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America and the American People

Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...party-spirit disturbed so many relations and broke oft' so many friendships/}- "Men," says he, "who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to...lest they should be obliged to touch their hats." Jefferson himself, it is retorted by his opponents, was the chief originator of this sad state of things...
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State Trials of the United States During the Administrations of Washington ...

Francis Wharton - Trials - 1849 - 762 pages
...from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the street to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way lest they should be obliged ID touch their hats." (2 Tuck Life of Jtff. 24.) A striking instance of an overt act committed by the...
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The History of the United States of America, Volume 5

Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 792 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives cross the streets to...they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may CHAPTER dp for young men, with whom passion is enjoyment ; but _!__ it is afflicting to peaceable minds."...
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Life of William Plumer

William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - Governors - 1856 - 580 pages
...Jefferson, speaking of an earlier period, " who have been intimate all their lives, cross the street to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch theh 1 hats." He had not himself been able to introduce a better state of feeling. This social intolerance...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2

Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to...enjoyment, but it is afflicting to peaceable minds." He remarks, on a different subject, in the same letter: " We had, in 1793, the most respectable character...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2

Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 728 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to...enjoyment, but it is afflicting to peaceable minds." He remarks, on a different subject, in the same letter : " We had, in 1793, the most respectable character...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...other, and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their herds another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with...
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