 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 страници
...genus irritabile vatum. * * * And as every sect believes its own form the true one, every one hopes for his own, but especially the Episcopalians and...cause of their printing lying pamphlets against me. (To Benjamin Rush, 1800. F. VII., 460.) CHRISTIANITY. — To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 страници
...genus irritabile vatum. * * * And as every sect believes its own form the true one, every one hopes for his own, but especially the Episcopalians and...cause of their printing lying pamphlets against me. (To Benjamin Rush, 1800. F. VII., 460.) CHRISTIANITY. — To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 страници
...ART, LITERATURE, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, MORALS, ETC. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: EDITED BY JOHN P. FOLEY "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY ß COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY REGISTKRBI)... | |
 | Granville Davisson Hall - 1902 - 972 страници
...whole energies to the amendment of these conditions. In some of his private correspondence he said : "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The situation in Virginia before the time of Jefferson is thus described by Moses Coit Tyler: The units... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1901 - 458 страници
...until 1834 that the divorce between church and state was complete and universal in this country. " I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man," said Jefferson. " I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our maker and our conscience,... | |
 | Granville Davisson Hall - 1901 - 644 страници
...whole energies to the amendment of these conditions. In some of his private correspondence he said: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The situation in Virginia before the time of Jefferson is thus described by Moses Coit Tyler: The units... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1902 - 24 страници
...He also declared that he should oppose the establishment of any nationalchurch, for he had "sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." His open hatred of slavery did not deprive him of a single electoral vote in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,... | |
 | Granville Davisson Hall - 1902 - 652 страници
...of these conditions. In some of Ins private correspondence he said : "I have sworn upon the altar 01 God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the. mind of man." The situation in Virginia before the time of Jefferson is thus described by Moses Coit Tyler: The unltt... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 538 страници
...anything that savored in the slightest of any form of tyranny or compulsion. He said, " I have sworn, on the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Full seventy-five years before the great conflict that finally cut the Gordian knot of slavery, Jefferson... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 556 страници
...enough to have carved on his tomb-stone. His devotion to public education was a child of his oath of "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Many extracts from his public papers and private letters would illustrate this truth. Three will suffice.... | |
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
