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nobody knew where the sources were until jefferson's father peter jefferson went and surveyed them. in washington was hired by lord fairbanks to do surveying. he was hired at age 16 and 17 to accompany surveyors to go out into this wilderness and he went out beyond the blue ridge by age 18. buying his first acreage in the shenandoah valley from money that he made doing surveys for fairfax. he is living with his older half-brother lawrence washington, has married into the fairfax family, extended family and is building a house that he is naming after his commanding admiral, admiral edward vernon. george washington is out as a surveyor. he knows the frontier country and with the house of burgesses says we want to have somebody to go out and follow the command of king george ii and tell the french not to advance their forces from the great lakes to the forks of the ohio or the allegheny and the 90 rivers, where pittsburgh is today, who are we going to send? and they said we will send this young washington, who knows this frontier. we will send him over there. and he is sent over there
nobody knew where the sources were until jefferson's father peter jefferson went and surveyed them. in washington was hired by lord fairbanks to do surveying. he was hired at age 16 and 17 to accompany surveyors to go out into this wilderness and he went out beyond the blue ridge by age 18. buying his first acreage in the shenandoah valley from money that he made doing surveys for fairfax. he is living with his older half-brother lawrence washington, has married into the fairfax family,...
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nobody knew where the sources were until jefferson's father peter jefferson went and surveyed them.washington was hired by lord fairbanks to do surveying. he was hired at age 16 and 17 to accompany surveyors to go out into this wilderness and he went out beyond the blue ridge by age 18. buying his first acreage in the shenandoah valley from money that he made doing surveys for fairfax. he is living with his older half-brother lawrence washington, has married into the fairfax family, extended family and is building a house that he is naming after his commanding admiral, admiral edward vernon. george washington is out as a surveyor. he knows the frontier country and with the house of burgesses says we want to have somebody to go out and follow the command of king george ii and tell the french not to advance their forces from the great lakes to the forks of the ohio or the allegheny and the 90 rivers, where pittsburgh is today, who are we going to send? and they said we will send this young washington, who knows this frontier. we will send him over there. and he is sent over there at a
nobody knew where the sources were until jefferson's father peter jefferson went and surveyed them.washington was hired by lord fairbanks to do surveying. he was hired at age 16 and 17 to accompany surveyors to go out into this wilderness and he went out beyond the blue ridge by age 18. buying his first acreage in the shenandoah valley from money that he made doing surveys for fairfax. he is living with his older half-brother lawrence washington, has married into the fairfax family, extended...
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nobody knew where the sources were until jefferson's father peter jefferson went and surveyed them.gton was hired by lord fairbanks to do surveying. he was hired at age 16 and 17 to accompany surveyors to go out into this wilderness and he went out beyond the blue ridge by age 18. buying his first acreage in the shenandoah valley from money that he made doing surveys for fairfax. he is living with his older half-brother lawrence washington, has married into the fairfax family, extended family and is building a house that he is naming after his commanding admiral, admiral edward vernon. george washington is out as a surveyor. he knows the frontier country and with the house of burgesses says we want to have somebody to go out and follow the command of king george ii and tell the french not to advance their forces from the great lakes to the forks of the ohio or the allegheny and the 90 rivers, where pittsburgh is today, who are we going to send? and they said we will send this young washington, who knows this frontier. we will send him over there. and he is sent over there at age 21,
nobody knew where the sources were until jefferson's father peter jefferson went and surveyed them.gton was hired by lord fairbanks to do surveying. he was hired at age 16 and 17 to accompany surveyors to go out into this wilderness and he went out beyond the blue ridge by age 18. buying his first acreage in the shenandoah valley from money that he made doing surveys for fairfax. he is living with his older half-brother lawrence washington, has married into the fairfax family, extended family...
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, eternal -- attributed to thomas jefferson, eternal vigilance. peter: have your political views altered in the past couple of decades? you were at freedom fest. nadine: my political views have more or less been centrist liberal throughout my life. but much more important to me than my views on policy issues are my views on neutral, fundamental civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights issues, where i continue to believe no matter who you are or what you believe that you are entitled to these freedoms and basic rights. i will defend them for you. the organizations i have been active with are organizations mutually committed to the defense of those principles and have undertaken to actually defend them on behalf of of the immediate beneficiaries who widely vary in terms of their political beliefs. the ultimate beneficiaries are every single one of us. when freedom of speech is defended for the nazis, as the aclu famously did in the late 1970's in the case coming out of illinois which had a large jewish population, many of whom were holocaust
, eternal -- attributed to thomas jefferson, eternal vigilance. peter: have your political views altered in the past couple of decades? you were at freedom fest. nadine: my political views have more or less been centrist liberal throughout my life. but much more important to me than my views on policy issues are my views on neutral, fundamental civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights issues, where i continue to believe no matter who you are or what you believe that you are entitled to...
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he is not writing for the thomas jeffersons of the world. he is writing for the man or woman in the street who can be persuaded by well-reasoned yet clear and accessible pros. peter: so take it forward, where would you put him on today's political spectrum? prof. bell: oh, his politics are completely fascinating. to understand his politics, you need to realize that "common sense" is not all there is to thomas payne. i would argue that tom payne wrote three masterpieces for which he is remembered. in some ways they are very different from one another. their names are "common sense," "the rights of man," and "the age of reason." he wrote the other two in the 1790's about two years apart and they have a lot to do with the context of the french revolution, which was unfolding by that time. what we can say at the general level is that payne knew what he thought, and that his ideology was consistently pro-republic with a small "r," and pro-democracy of course with a small "d." he wants ordinary people to have responsive, elected, accountable, tran
he is not writing for the thomas jeffersons of the world. he is writing for the man or woman in the street who can be persuaded by well-reasoned yet clear and accessible pros. peter: so take it forward, where would you put him on today's political spectrum? prof. bell: oh, his politics are completely fascinating. to understand his politics, you need to realize that "common sense" is not all there is to thomas payne. i would argue that tom payne wrote three masterpieces for which he is...
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peter: professor bell, was common sense a common phrase at that time?ichard: i'm going to leave it to our friends at the oxford english dictionary to put a particular date on that sort of usage but one thing i did learn in reading some of the wonderful scholarship on thomas payne is that in an earlier phase of his life when he had been a journalist and debater in england he sometimes published pieces in local newspapers in britain. he did not use his own name to sign those pieces, he used a pseudonym. a made up name or phrase. for the federalist papers for instance. but the one he chose back in england in the 1770's was common sense, so he saw that as a name to plume. a pen name. richard: what was the immediate reaction when common sense hit philadelphia? richard: if found a readership very quickly. we know that not because everyone who bought one wrote down what they bought one and told historians, reading documents in the labors of congress with a thought. but because we know from printing records just how many copies were printed and how many more ad
peter: professor bell, was common sense a common phrase at that time?ichard: i'm going to leave it to our friends at the oxford english dictionary to put a particular date on that sort of usage but one thing i did learn in reading some of the wonderful scholarship on thomas payne is that in an earlier phase of his life when he had been a journalist and debater in england he sometimes published pieces in local newspapers in britain. he did not use his own name to sign those pieces, he used a...
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authors in the american inspiration serious, we ask you to read from his book, a brilliant passage, peter come back to you. >> okay, i will get on with it. this is from a prologue, it is called july the fourth, i bet you can guess the european this is just after jefferson has been given the job of writing the deck duration, drafting, i should say. jefferson met this challenge in sparkling style. from its opening sentence, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from the subordination in which they have hitherto remained, his s words flowed with what the historian called that felicitous haunting cadence, which is the peculiar quality of jefferson's best writing. when adam first read the draft,i he found himself delighted with its high tone and the flights of poetry. some parts of the preamble were fortified by adams and benjamin franklin, was also on the committee of five. together, they also scrutinized jefferson's list of 24 distinct charges against king george the third before the draft was submitted for consideration. then jefferson's agonies tru
authors in the american inspiration serious, we ask you to read from his book, a brilliant passage, peter come back to you. >> okay, i will get on with it. this is from a prologue, it is called july the fourth, i bet you can guess the european this is just after jefferson has been given the job of writing the deck duration, drafting, i should say. jefferson met this challenge in sparkling style. from its opening sentence, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a...
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this is just after jefferson has been given the job of writing the declaration or drafting, i should jefferson met this challenge in sparkling style from its opening sentence, when in the course of human events becomes necessary for a people to advance from that. so subordination in which they have hitherto remained, his words flowed with what the historian called otis becker has termed that felicitous, haunting, which is the peculiar of jefferson's best writing. when adams first read the draft, he found himself delighted with its high tone and the flights of oratory with which he demanded some parts of the preamble with untitled or fortified by adams and benjamin franklin, who were also on the committee of five. together, they also scrutinized jefferson's list of 24 distinct charges against king george, the third before the draft was was submitted for consideration. and then jefferson agonies truly began words, phrases and tired paragraphs were picked over, quibbled at or struck out as congress sought to find a balance that was palatable to all by the morning of the 4th of july, wit
this is just after jefferson has been given the job of writing the declaration or drafting, i should jefferson met this challenge in sparkling style from its opening sentence, when in the course of human events becomes necessary for a people to advance from that. so subordination in which they have hitherto remained, his words flowed with what the historian called otis becker has termed that felicitous, haunting, which is the peculiar of jefferson's best writing. when adams first read the...