| Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 頁
...with rousing praise for the author of the Declaration of Independence: All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle...document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men at all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke... | |
| James R. Wilburn - 2002 - 188 頁
...rights of others, not just our own. In other words, as Lincoln said, "All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle...truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to... | |
| Dan McKanan - 2002 - 312 頁
...the canny rationalism of the prairie lawyer. In an 1 859 letter Lincoln praised Jefferson for having "had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce...document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all rimes." Thus, the nation Jefferson created transcended the normal constraints of nationhood. In a speech... | |
| Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 頁
...for his country when he remembered that God was just." This was the Jefferson, said Lincoln in 1859, who "in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national...to introduce into a merely revolutionary document" — the Declaration of Independence — "an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times."8... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 頁
...principles of Jefferson" as "the definitions and axioms of free society." All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle...coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a mere revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 頁
...legitimate government. Lincoln aptly captures Jefferson's accomplishment when he praises him for having Think you these places would satisfy an Alexander,...genius disdains a beaten path It thirsts and burns (to HL Pierce and others, April 6, 1 859). On the basis of this "abstract truth," the Declaration submits... | |
| Jeffrey T. Bergner - 2003 - 236 頁
...these principles. In turn, of course, Lincoln had written: "All honor to Jefferson — to the man who had the coolness, forecast and capacity to introduce...document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men at all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all the coming days, it shall be a rebuke... | |
| Forrest Church - 2003 - 196 頁
...serious but no less telling — Abraham Lincoln wrote: "All honor to Jefferson, ... to the man who . . . had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce...a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, . . . and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto - 2005 - 302 頁
...public mind. Of the Declaration and its primary author, he said, in 1859: "All honor to Jefferson— to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle...document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times."7 It was this dedication to the "abstract truth" of securing natural rights that Wilson found... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 頁
...Independence, Lincoln said in 1X59: "All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure ot a struggle for national independence by a single people,...document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times."3'1 By contrast, Wilson's references to [efferson and others of the founding generation are... | |
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