 | 1873 - 794 стор.
..." My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause ; but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the...left free, it would be better than as it now is." Gouverneur Morris was then American Minister in France, — a very able gentleman and honorably frank... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 стор.
...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it now is." This is expressive enough of the writer's estimation of the value of human liberty, even... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 стор.
...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it now is." This is expressive enough of the writer's estimation of the value of human liberty, even... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 620 стор.
...? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth...better than as it now is. I have expressed to you my senti ments, because they are really those of ninety-nine in an hundred of our citizens. The universal... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 стор.
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." ' Washington, who contemplated the French revolution with a less sanguine eye than Jefferson, was simply... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 стор.
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." * Washington, who contemplated the Trench revolution with a less sanguine eye than Jefferson, was simply... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 стор.
...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.'* In 1793, when this apology was written, the bonnet rouge was in request at Philadelphia. The times... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 стор.
...it .should have failed, I would have seen half tiie earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Kve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it is now."' * * Letter to Mr. Short. Jefferson's Works, iii., 501. letter from GJouverneur /Borrf0 321... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 стор.
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." The mingled folly and ferocity of this passage would almost lead to a doubt of the sanity of the writer,... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 стор.
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and Em left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." The mingled folly and ferocity of this passage would almost lead to a doubt of the sanity of the writer,... | |
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My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better... 
