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1. What effects of Enlightenment thought do you notice

characters of Franklin and Jefferson? :$ Ea

(Q What is Jefferson's opinion, on the whole, of Washing

exactiy calculated every man's value, and gave solid esteem

proportioned to it. His person (physical appearance), you know, was

fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportnfént easy,

erect, and noble; the best horseman of his ago, and the most graceful

figure that could be seen on horseback. Although in the cirçle of his

friends, where he might be unreserved with snfoty, he took a free

share in conversation, his colloquial talonts wora not above madioc:

ty, possessing neither copiousness of ideos, nor fluancy of words, In

/public>when calléd on for a sudden opinion, ho was unrandy, short,

and embarassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and

correct. style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,

for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithme-

tic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was

employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture

and English history. On the whole, his character was, in its mass,

perfect, in nothing bad, fin few points indifferent; and it may be truly

said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to

make a man great, and to placo him in the same constellation with

whatovor worthios (eminent persons) have marited from man an

evortasting remaem branda,” :

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

2. How does “The Declaration of Independence” justify the right of th

American colonies to rebel?

&), Why does Jefferson emphasize that “Government long ostablishod

should not be changed for light and transiont causos"?

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tton's character

he similarities and differences between Jefferson's analysis-d

in this letter and Franklin's analysis in his Autobicgraphy? &

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tloning democracy, a radical

creation to the monarchies and

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