 | 1826 - 438 Seiten
...manifest, that the mass of mankind have not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored fewbooted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Already has this great truth aroused the one half of this continent from the lethargy in which it has... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 Seiten
...or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid opCn to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace ol God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day, forever... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 Seiten
...of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the lights of science has already laid open, to every view, the...are grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let ttie annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 656 Seiten
...; and he would now give it in the last impressive words of the great author of that declaration : " The palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." RETURN FROM WASHINGTON.' MY FELLOW-TOWNSMEN AND NEIGHBORS: You will hardly need any assurance that... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 646 Seiten
...impressive words of the great author of that declaration: "The palpable truth that the mass of mankind'has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored...spurred, ready to ride them, legitimately, by the grace EETUEN FROM WASHINGTON.* MT . FELLOW-TOWNSMEN AND NEIGHBORS: You will hardly need any assurance that... | |
 | W. P. Rowles - 1853 - 242 Seiten
...of those concurring fully in the opinion expressed by Mr. Jefferson, that the "mass of mankind had not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored...ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." He is in favor of an equal distribution of justice to all — special privileges te none. He wants... | |
 | Theodore Clapp - 1857 - 448 Seiten
...education " have already opened to every view the palpable truths that the mass of mankind was not born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few...ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." It is a most unfounded alarm, then, that these annually increasing immigrations of foreigners into... | |
 | 1874 - 804 Seiten
...right divine; and when, as Jefferson has it, " the many were born with saddles on their backs, and the favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." Nor did a nearer acquaintance with the political state of the country change my first idea. I remember... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 Seiten
...have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of...booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, hy the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - 1858 - 320 Seiten
...freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the lights of science has already laid open to every view the...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." No better explanation of the true meaning of this much-disputed sentence can be found than that in... | |
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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... 
