 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1999 - 337 strani
...holders in the banks & public funds," and even men like Washington, "who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."23 Jefferson was keeping a safe distance from politics at the time, but Hamilton was quick... | |
 | Don Higginbotham - 2001 - 356 strani
...Mazzei, "were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the Council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot of England." Because there was only one person who could possibly merit the mantle of America's Samson... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 strani
...fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. (MCM III, 328) June 19,17 9 6 After the Mazzei letter was published, Jefferson tried unsuccessfully... | |
 | James F. Simon - 2003 - 356 strani
...In the letter Jefferson made an apparent reference to Washington as one of the "men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England." The Federalists, Marshall included, never forgave Jefferson for defaming the great Washington. Battle... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2003 - 290 strani
...name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."196 The well-meaning but indiscreet Maz/ei translated Jefferson's letter into Italian and... | |
 | John Ferling - 2004 - 288 strani
...fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to those heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."67 The "Samson" to whom Jefferson had referred was obviously President Washington. The "Solomons"... | |
 | Joseph Wheelan - 2004 - 456 strani
...reference to Washington, already a national icon, in the line, "men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England." Jefferson was disconcerted by the letter's publication, and Washington was furious. The breach that... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 strani
...name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors & perils.... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 strani
...Mazzei, had seized the federal government, along with certain unnamed apostates, "men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England" — a slanderous reference, Jefferson's enemies would later charge, to the incorruptible Washington.'... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 637 strani
...name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the whore England." It was this insult to Washington which Marshall resented most bitterly. Jefferson must... | |
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It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot, England. 
