 The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood ? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed,...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Side 109av Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1853 - 612 sider
...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 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 sider
...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 than as it now is. I have expressed to you my sentiments, because they are really those of ninety-nine in... | |
 | 1873 - 794 sider
...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 than as it now is." Gouverneur Morris was then American Minister in France, — a very able gentleman and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 sider
...affections have been deeply wounded by son* of the martyrs to CHAP. III.] POLITICAL TONE OF THE PEEIOD. 100 this cause, but rather than it should have failed...conservatism in regard to the appropriate aims of the French Revolution — or else, that inasmuch as France had advanced to the Constitution of 1791 — the anomalous... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 sider
...but rather 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,...conservatism in regard to the appropriate aims of the French Revolution — or else, that inasmuch as France had advanced to the Constitution of 1791 — the anomalous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 sider
...re-establishment of a despotism, they considered it absolutely indispensable to expunge that office. " In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty persons...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 sider
...re-establishment of a despotism, they considered it absolutely indispensable to expunge that office. "In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 sider
...their posterity will be enjoying that very liberty for which they would nevei have hesitated to oifer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was...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,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 620 sider
...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 than as it now is. I have expressed to you my senti ments, because they are really those of ninety-nine... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 804 sider
...have bee^n deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause," he continued; "but rather than that it should have failed, I would have seen half the...Eve left in every country, and left free, it would have been better than it now is." When fully assured of Lafayette's fate, Washington felt an ardent... | |
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