This writer's only book includes the o t-quoted anti-slavery line "I tremble for my country when I re lect that God is just."
In a novel by a later author, this writer is nearly crushed by a falling bed he had rigged to his ceiling, and is ridiculed by the protagonist for the mixed metaphors in a speech he delivers so quietly the audience can't hear him. This writer reproduced an oration by the Mingo chief Logan as part of his refutation of Count de Bu fon's theory that animals are smaller and people are stupider in America than in Europe. This writer's only book includes the o t-quoted anti-slavery line "I tremble for my country when I re lect that God is just." He wrote a long letter to Maria Cosway featuring a dialogue between his head and his heart. His responses to 23 "queries" about his home state were published as Notes on the State of Virginia. For 10 points, name this American author who articulated the "unalienable rights" of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in The Declaration of Independence.
In a novel by a later author, this writer is nearly crushed by a falling bed he had rigged to his ceiling, and is ridiculed by the protagonist for the mixed metaphors in a speech he delivers so quietly the audience can't hear him.
Thomas Jefferson