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
| Michael Lind - 2006 - 304 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 is now."10 Soon disillusioned, Jefferson told Lafayette that the French revolutionaries had failed... | |
| James R. Gaines - 2007 - 580 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. He warned Short to moderate his tone in the future and to "be cautious" in what he wrote to Hamilton... | |
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...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. After having thus taken his adoptive son to task for his extreme anti-Jacobin remarks, Jefferson concluded... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 926 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... | |
| American Society for the Extension of University Teaching - 1896 - 430 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 it is now. — Jefferson. The reception given to the [Jay] treaty cannot be fully explained by the existing... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1879 - 716 страници
...rather than that 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 have been better than it now is." When fully assured of Lafayette's fate, Washington felt an ardent... | |
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