 | Dick Stoken - 2004 - 382 Seiten
...was able to exploit the masses. According to Jefferson, "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them." An admirer of the French Revolution ("the French revolution is the most sacred cause that man was ever... | |
 | Gene Ruyle - 2005 - 182 Seiten
...science has already laid open to view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. (B. Mayo, Jefferson Himself, p. 545) A few days after writing this, he died. Like his close friend... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 Seiten
...reaction to such divine right notions, Jefferson wrote, "The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."9 Bottom's speech, in the Jeffersonian mold, heralds a newer, more democratic view, where the... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2005 - 376 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.59 Yet even Caleb Williams does not progress beyond eighteenth-century literary conventions in... | |
 | Thomas R. Rourke, Rosita A. Chazarreta Rourke - 2005 - 234 Seiten
...expressed in a letter in the last weeks of his life, was "that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."76 In order for the person to be free and realize his potential, Jefferson believed that he had... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born, with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. To Roger C. Weightman, Monticello, June 24, 1826 Dependence Dependence begets subservience and venality,... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God. . . For ourselves let the annual return of this day [July 4] forever refresh our recollections of these... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 2006 - 208 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." 4. The phraseology Strauss uses is borrowed from Descartes, Discourse on the Method, and Bacon, Great... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." 37 3But, of course, the covenant culture itself had little place for saddles, boots and spurs. It thus... | |
 | John R. Llewellyn - 2006 - 156 Seiten
...science has already laid open to view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. The power these prophets use to deprive their brainwashed flock of their inalienable rights comes from... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
