 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1871 - 602 pages
...odious peculiarities. . . . Indeed, I tremble for ray country when I reflect that God is just. . . . The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.' * Some person asked Mr Jefferson 'whether he had made any change in his religion.' He replied, ' Say... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1871 - 256 pages
...odious peculiarities. . . . Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. . . . The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest/ * Some person asked Mr Jefferson 'whether he had made any change in his religion.' He replied, ' Say... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1873 - 860 pages
...who am retain his manners and morals undepnived by sucli circumstances. It is impossible," ho adds, " to be temperate and to pursue this subject through the various considerations of |>olicy, of morals, of history, national and civil." * Now it hus been common, and it still occurs,... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...that his justice cannot sleep forever; that ... an exchange of situation [between masters and slaves] is among possible events; that it may become probable...has no attribute which can take side with us in such Certainly Jefferson never believed for a moment that such thoughts as these ought to be coerced by... | |
 | Henry Wiencek - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 pages
...His writing suddenly took a mystical turn. Having lived through one revolution he foresaw another — "a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events." He was seized by a dread that some biblical cataclysm would befall the nation over slavery: "I tremble... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, and exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference!... | |
 | Olaudah Equiano - Social Science - 2001 - 340 pages
...my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution...the various considerations of policy, of morals, of history natural and civil. We must be contented to hope they will force their way into every one's... | |
 | Thomas G. West - History - 1997 - 244 pages
...my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution...no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.57 But slavery could only be right in this limited way if its wrongness was admitted and people... | |
 | Philip F. Rubio - Business & Economics - 2009 - 347 pages
...his justice cannot sleep forever." Yet equally revealing are his very next words: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution...no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.0 Abraham Lincoln, who quoted Jefferson's "God is just" phrase in one of his 1858 debates with... | |
 | Frank Trommler, Elliott Shore - History - 2001 - 376 pages
...contemporaries of violent things to come. Based on demographic reality, Jefferson indicated in 1785 that "a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange...attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." He concludes his reflections with the ominous expectation of nearly inescapable genocidal violence:... | |
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it... 
