 | Don Higginbotham - 2001 - 356 страници
...Jay Treaty. "It would give you a fever," Jefferson wrote to his Italian friend Philip Mazzei, "were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to...Council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot of England." Because there was only one person who could possibly merit the mantle of America's Samson... | |
 | David McCullough - 2001 - 883 страници
...Jefferson wrote: It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to those heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons...have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. Successive translations of the letter from English to Italian to French, then back to English again... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 страници
...things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to...have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. (MCM III, 328) June 19,17 9 6 After the Mazzei letter was published, Jefferson tried unsuccessfully... | |
 | James F. Simon - 2003 - 356 страници
...Mazzei was published. In the letter Jefferson made an apparent reference to Washington as one of the "men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in...have had their heads shorn by the harlot England." The Federalists, Marshall included, never forgave Jefferson for defaming the great Washington. Battle... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2003 - 290 страници
...name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."196 The well-meaning but indiscreet Maz/ei translated Jefferson's letter into Italian and... | |
 | John Ferling - 2004 - 288 страници
...followed: "It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to those heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons...council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."67 The "Samson" to whom Jefferson had referred was obviously President Washington. The "Solomons"... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 страници
...things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are... | |
 | Joseph Wheelan - 2004 - 456 страници
...reference to Washington, already a national icon, in the line, "men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England." Jefferson was disconcerted by the letter's publication, and Washington was furious. The breach that... | |
 | Charles D. Rodenbough - 2004 - 254 страници
...letter to Filippo Mazzei, Jefferson made his cryptic characterization of Washington's late cabinet as "men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the Council, shorn by the harlot England."49 Jefferson was convinced that the French Revolution was a natural progression... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 страници
...aristocratical party," he told Mazzei, had seized the federal government, along with certain unnamed apostates, "men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in...have had their heads shorn by the harlot England" — a slanderous reference, Jefferson's enemies would later charge, to the incorruptible Washington.'... | |
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It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. 
