 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
 | William Howard Adams - 2008 - 361 страници
...earth desolated." Then in the words of a fanatic, he famously adds, "Were there only an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it now is." Laid against the compassion repeatedly expressed by Morris throughout the Revolution, no words more... | |
 | Annette Gordon-Reed - 2003 - 266 страници
...that "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" showed the force of Jefferson's feelings (at least at that moment) about revolutionary... | |
 | John Ferling - 2003 - 576 страници
...French Revolution ] 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 to have remained under the hammer of regal absolutism and privileged noblemen.5 As deep fissures appeared... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 страници
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an ould arise, Against whom are they good? Who has the corresponding as it is now" (to William Short, January 3, 1793).7 As Tocqueville explained and Jefferson in some... | |
 | Robert M. S. McDonald - 2004 - 264 страници
...seen half the earth desolated" in the name of republican revolution. "Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is."7 Here, for skeptical military men, were the classic symptoms of civilian bloodthirstiness,... | |
 | James Taranto, Leonard Leo - 2004 - 304 страници
...have failed," he wrote, "I would have seen half the earth devastated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." Hamilton believed that US prosperity depended on an understanding with Britain. "We... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 637 страници
...JOHN MARSHALL CHAPTER I INFLUENCE OF THE FBENCH REVOLUTION ON AMERICA Were there but an Adorn and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it now is. (Jefferson.) That malignant philosophy which can coolly and deliberately pursue, through oceans of... | |
 | Bruce Ackerman - 2005 - 424 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." See Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Long Affair, 1785-1800, 38-68, 113-151 (1996), for a scandalized... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 страници
...revolution] 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." Jefferson's principal biographer, Dumas Malone, undertakes several rationalizing contortions to explain... | |
 | Carl Rollyson - 2006 - 301 страници
...but rather than it should have failed, 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. What would Paul Johnson make of that statement? Surely this is Jefferson as the American Lenin.... | |
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