 | Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 strani
...Jefferson wrote, "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 Bottom's speech, in the Jeffersonian mold, heralds a newer, more democratic view, where the... | |
 | Thomas R. Rourke, Rosita A. Chazarreta Rourke - 2005 - 234 strani
...his life, was "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."76 In order for the person to be free and realize his potential, Jefferson believed that he had... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2005 - 376 strani
...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.59 Yet even Caleb Williams does not progress beyond eighteenth-century literary conventions in... | |
 | Laura Ingraham - 2006 - 404 strani
...final letter 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." No one considers himself to be simply a "common" person, good only for serving the wishes of others.... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 strani
...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." This may have been inspired by a famous 1685 scaffold speech by Richard Rumbold, who was condemned... | |
 | John R. Llewellyn - 2006 - 156 strani
...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. The power these prophets use to deprive their brainwashed flock of their inalienable rights comes from... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 strani
...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. To Roger C. Weightman, Monticello, June 24, 1826 Dependence Dependence begets subservience and venality,... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 2006 - 200 strani
...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... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 strani
...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. . . For ourselves let the annual return of this day [July 4] forever refresh our recollections of these... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 strani
...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." 37 3But, of course, the covenant culture itself had little place for saddles, boots and spurs. It thus... | |
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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... 
