 | 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...accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground for distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1893 - 412 頁
...had a common faith in a natural, as distinguished from an artificial, aristocracy: "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,... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1893 - 406 頁
...had a common faith in a natural, as distinguished from an artificial, aristocracy: "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,... | |
 | 1908 - 604 頁
...suffrage, Jefferson in retirement at Monticello in 1813 wrote to John Adams as follows: "1 agree with you 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... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 頁
...them alone. (Written from Paris to George Wythe, 1786. F. IV., 269.) ARISTOCRACY. — I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The...since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 頁
...you that there is a natural aristocracy I among men. The grounds of this are virtue and tal•^ ents. Formerly bodily powers gave place among the aristoi....strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness, and 13. 396. other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an... | |
 | Vincent G. Potter - 1988 - 292 頁
...shared with his Federalist friend John Adams, as he explained in one of his letters. I agree with you 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... | |
 | William Arthur Galston - 1991 - 360 頁
...discerning and selecting good leaders. Thomas Jefferson spoke for them when he wrote to John Adams: There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 頁
...Plutarch Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. — Voltaire ... 1 agree with you 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... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1993 - 244 頁
...basic classical republican thesis in his letter to John Adams of October 28, 1813: I agree with you 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... | |
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The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. 
