 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
 | Eric Robert Papenfuse - 1997 - 192 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 it now is. Unwilling to have his universe shaken, Harper recoiled in horror as tales of the Terror's... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 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... | |
 | Jean-Philippe Mathy - 2000 - 232 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" (10). The pro-Jacobin faction put forward some of the same arguments used by those who,... | |
 | George F. Will - 1999 - 384 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." It is meretricious to treat an epistolary extravagance as an index of implacable conviction,... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 1997 - 368 страници
...desolated." Then, in the grim words of a religious fanatic, he added: "Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is."102 In early 1793, when he learned that the monarchy he had once supported had been overthrown... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 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."66 Jefferson conf1dently assumed that there was a French "people" or "Nation" capable... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - 306 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 if it had failed. Perhaps a little embarrassed by his own rhetoric, he quickly added, "I have expressed... | |
 | Howard Jones - 2002 - 334 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 it now is." The French Revolution suddenly became no longer a matter of mere spectator interest in February 1793,... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 460 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 it now is." Thus the ideological conflict between monarchy and republicanism in Europe provided the symbols that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 страници
...rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam & Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it is now. To William Short, Philadelphia, Jan. 3, 1793 (Jefferson commenting on the French Revolution.)... | |
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