| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 頁
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 頁
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 頁
...served its purpose very well, in 1776 at the head of the declaration, said, in 1813 :* "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers » Jefferson's Works. Charlottesville: 1829. Vol. i?., p. 227. gave place among... | |
| 1842 - 1124 頁
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you, that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the arisloi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 頁
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of* breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 頁
...independence, the great republican leader took yet higher and nobler ground. " I agree with you," he said, " that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 頁
...letter, — written after both had filled the office of President, Jefferson says, "I agree with you, that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . This natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction,... | |
| 1884 - 624 頁
...reasoning more absurd, sophistry more gross," continued Adams . . . "than the subtle VOL. XII —No i._ 4 labor of Helvetius and Rousseau to demonstrate the...phrases and doctrines of Rousseau? Did it contain asingle allusion to a school which, influential in Europe, has by some been assumed to have been equally... | |
| 1884 - 624 頁
...reasoning more absurd, sophistry more gross," continued Adams . . . "than the subtle VOL. XII -No i.—4 labor of Helvetius and Rousseau to demonstrate the...phrases and doctrines of Rousseau? Did it contain asingle allusion to a school which, influential in Europe, has by some been assumed to have been equally... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 頁
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
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