no other example. How, then, can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders? He has often declared to me that he considered our new Constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty... The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 364by Sarah Nicholas Randolph - 1871 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...soundness of that gave him correct views of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He ¿has often declared to me that he considered our...that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...soundness of that gave him correct views of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He has often declared to me that he considered our...that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...soundness of that gave him correct views of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He has often declared to me that he considered our...practicability of republican government, and with what close of liberty man could be trusted for his own good ; that he was determined the experiment should... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...laws ihroiigh the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. How, then, can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders? I am satisfied ihc great body of republicans think 237 of him as I do. We were, indeed, dissatisfied... | |
| 1830 - 658 pages
...soundnessof that gave him correct views of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He has often declared to me, that he considered our...that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he... | |
| 1831 - 708 pages
...laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. " How, then, can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders .' I am satisfied the great body of republicans think of him as I do. We were, indeed, dissatisfied... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. " How, then, can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders 1 I am satisfied the great body of republicans think of him as I do. We were, indeed, dissatisfied... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 pages
...perfection than it has hitherto attained. Jefferson, speaking of Washington, says, "He has often declared lo me, that he considered our new constitution as an...good; that he was determined the experiment should liave a fair trial ; and he would lose the lasl drop of his blood in support of i!. I do not believe... | |
| Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...infatuated as to endeavour to make the British constitution END in something like an American one P— " He has often declared to me, that he considered our...of liberty man could be trusted for his own good." Washington, as a wise physician, knew that an over dose of that deliciously intoxicating medicine might... | |
| Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...infatuated as to endeavour to make the British constitution END in something like an American one ?— "He has often declared to me, that he considered our...of liberty man could be trusted for his own good." Washington, as a wise physician, knew that an over dose of that deliciously intoxicating medicine might... | |
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