 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 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." This may have been inspired by a famous 1685 scaffold speech by Richard Rumbold, who was condemned... | |
 | Laura Ingraham - 2006 - 404 Seiten
...with Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in his final letter 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." No one considers himself to be simply a "common" person, good only for serving the wishes of others.... | |
 | David Saxe - 2006 - 223 Seiten
...The mass of mankind [note the use of the universal, inclusive term 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.20 Even resolving the "men" issue, the founders did not intend that "all were equal in size, intellect,... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 Seiten
...proclaimed in a famous letter written just before he died 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."9 LINCOLN AND SLAVERY: THE PROBLEM day of December, one thousand eight hundred; all persons born... | |
 | John Samples - 2008 - 391 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."2 If no individual or group had the right to rule over others, individuals had an equal claim... | |
 | John Ehrenberg - 2006 - 224 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."2 Jefferson didn't extend this argument to slaves of course, but a little bit of hypocrisy is... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 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."6 Although there is a natural aristocracy of virtue and talent, as Jefferson conceded in a famous... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 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.1 In Jefferson's mind, as in the minds of most Enlightenment thinkers in the late eighteenth century,... | |
 | Richard Koch, Chris Smith - 2006 - 228 Seiten
...self-government . . . [based on] 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'. The American Revolution, against the British Crown, was the work very largely of Protestant settlers... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 2006 - 200 Seiten
...view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nora favored few booted and spurred, 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... | |
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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... 
