 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 290 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."6 Although there is a natural aristocracy of virtue and talent, as Jefferson conceded in a famous... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough - 1963 - 328 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of Cod. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of tins day forever... | |
 | J. H. Elliott - 2007 - 546 páginas
...palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.'149 British Americans had succeeded, sometimes in spite of themselves, in creating a society in... | |
 | John Samples - 2008 - 328 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."2 If no individual or group had the right to rule over others, individuals had an equal claim... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 285 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.1 In Jefferson's mind, as in the minds of most Enlightenment thinkers in the late eighteenth century,... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 páginas
...before he died that "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God."9 LINCOLN AND SLAVERY: THE PROBLEM day of December, one thousand eight hundred; all persons born... | |
 | David Warren Saxe - 2006 - 224 páginas
...the universal, inclusive term mankind] has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.20 Even resolving the "men" issue, the founders did not intend that "all were equal in size, intellect,... | |
 | John Ehrenberg - 2006 - 204 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."2 Jefferson didn't extend this argument to slaves of course, but a little bit of hypocrisy is... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - 2007 - 352 páginas
...palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,...others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.5 Given such... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 396 páginas
...was to be hanged] the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God. These are the grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let the annual return to this day forever refresh our... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
