 | Thomas Jefferson - 1853 - 612 strani
...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 than as it now is. I have expressed to you my sentiments, because they are really those of ninety-nine in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 616 strani
...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 than as it now is. I have expressed to you my sentiments, because they are really those of ninety-nine in... | |
 | 1873 - 794 strani
...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 than as it now is." Gouverneur Morris was then American Minister in France, — a very able gentleman and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 strani
...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 when... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 strani
...than it should h&ve failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but au 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 when... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 strani
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 620 strani
...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 than as it now is. I have expressed to you my senti ments, because they are really those of ninety-nine... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 strani
...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.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 strani
...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... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 strani
...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... | |
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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... 
