| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pages
...whether we would go back to twenty-five, how can it be whether we would go forward from seventy-three ? Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Perhaps, however, I might accept of time to read Grimm before I go. Fifteen volumes of anecdotes and... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 pages
...whether we would go back to twenty-five, how can it be whether we would go forward from seventy-three ? Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Perhaps, however, I might accept of time to read Grimm before I go. Fifteen volumes of anecdotes and... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 514 pages
...whether we would go back to twenty-five, how can it be whether we would go forward from seventy-three? Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Perhaps, however, I might accept of time to read Grimm before I go. Fifteen volumes of anecDREAMS OF... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1971 - 1508 pages
...phase of life with many gape. Mr. Nixon made an interesting point in announcing the Conference. He aald that several hundred thousand Americans of advanced...government-financed research has been on the killing disease*. But success against them will merely extend the enfeeblement of the aging process. If degeneration... | |
| Charles B. Sanford - 1984 - 260 pages
...Independence, Charles Thomson, "slender as a grasshopper and much without memory." He complained to Adams, "Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind."79 Old age would be desirable only if one could remain vigorous and healthy. Jefferson took satisfaction... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...could be doubted whether we would go back to 25 how can it be, whether we would go forward from 73? Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect; but of all human...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Perhaps however I might accept of time to read Grimm before I go. 1 5 volumes of anecdotes and incidents,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 pages
...lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another. To John Adams, Monticello, Aug. 1, 1816 Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. To John Adams, Monticello, Aug. 1, 1816 Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm... | |
| Peter McDonald - 2004 - 228 pages
...one-third of our citizens and ruins their families. Letter to Col. Charles Yancey. 6 January (18161 Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human...contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Letter to John Adams, i August (i8i6> We never repent of having eaten too little. Letter to Thomas... | |
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