 My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Страница 109по Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1888 - 966 страници
...but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country and left free, it would be better than it is now.' We see here in full perfection the Jacobin belief that everybody could be made happy, and... | |
 | Jerald C. Brauer - 1987 - 280 страници
..."but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as is now."" Religious liberty. However strongly Jefferson felt about political liberty, some would... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 страници
...it should have failed I would have seen half of the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." 67 How fortunate for America that its freedom did not have to be purchased at the price... | |
 | James Roger Sharp - 1993 - 388 страници
...rather than see the revolution fail, he "would have seen half the earth desolated." Were "there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is," he said. Although most Americans were friendly to the French cause and were firm in... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1993 - 500 страници
...that it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is."26 At that writing the Jacobins had not begun to desolate their enemies. Yet surely it... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Lynn Avery Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob - 1994 - 340 страници
...the seedbed of democratic nationalism: "I would have seen half the world desolated. Were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country and left free, it would be better than it is now."1 1 Jefferson pointed Americans, geographically and temporally, toward the West with its promise... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 1994 - 228 страници
...rather than see it fail, "I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." Radical, even bloodthirsty, though this letter seems, it must be remembered that he... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 404 страници
...but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and Eve, left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it now is. Let us leave common sense and common humanity behind for a moment and follow Thomas Jefferson into... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 страници
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is. I have expressed to you my sentiments, because they are really those of 99 in an hundred... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 страници
...rather than have the Revolution fail he "would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is."42 Federalists, in turn, got all the ammunition they needed from Robespierre's Reign... | |
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