 | Daniel Kornstein - 1994 - 274 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 - 351 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 - 217 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... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2005 - 132 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 - 209 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... | |
 | Brian Patrick Mitchell - 2007 - 161 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...ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God. Thomas Jefferson Letter to the Mayor of Washington and the American People June 24, 1826 The liberal... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 2006 - 189 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 - 381 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 - 153 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... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro - 2006 - 1067 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born, with ath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect...just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Notes Letter to Roger C. Weightman, 24 June 1826. From Jefferson's last letter before his death. 55 [Last... | |
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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... 
