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Thomas Jefferson
Edward Ellis
其他書名
A Character Sketch
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012-08-18
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
ISBN14791447899781479144785
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QX77MQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Standing on the threshold of the nineteenth century, no one who attempted to peer down the shadowy vista, saw more clearly than he the possibilities, the perils, the pitfalls and the achievements that were within the grasp of the Nation. None was inspired by purer patriotism. None was more sagacious, wise and prudent, and none understood his countrymen better. By birth an aristocrat, by nature he was a democrat. The most learned man that ever sat in the president's chair, his tastes were the simple ones of a farmer. Surrounded by the pomp and ceremony of Washington and Adams' courts, his dress was homely. He despised titles, and preferred severe plainness of speech and the sober garb of the Quakers.