 | Marjorie Kelly - 2001 - 290 頁
...20. 3. Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, Oct. 28, 18 1 3, wrote: " For 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 talents."... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2003 - 532 頁
...not a biological sameness. For example, in an 1813 letter to John Adams he wrote: "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents For experience proves, that the moral and physical qualities of man, whether good or evil, are transmissible... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 頁
...Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia, 1852). CHAPTER SEVEN. Science in Antebellum America I agree with you that 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, the... | |
 | Charles R. Anderson - 2003 - 236 頁
...believe in an aristocracy, an aristocracy of . . ." followed by various qualities? Thomas Jefferson said, "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents," which is not exactly the quotation desired (Cappon, 1988). Somerset Maugham said something similar:... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 頁
...recognition of a "natural aristocracy of virtue and talent" to which he assigned a privileged political role. "[T]here 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, the... | |
 | Beverly Merrill Kelley - 2004 - 350 頁
...World, refined the traditional elitist argument in an 1813 exchange with John Adams: "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. . . . [T]he grounds of this are virtue and talents. That form of government is best that prevents the ascendancy of artificial aristocrats and provides... | |
 | 2004 - 516 頁
...impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. — -Joseph Addison I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Tlromas Jefferson 451 Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight... | |
 | Robert Mitchell - 2005 - 356 頁
...the subject of this ruling class, in 1813 Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams, "For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent."10 Jefferson's concept followed the classic model — that is, Aristotle's concept of the guardians... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 2006 - 289 頁
...time overbear any one or both of the two last. (John Adams, Quincy, 9.2.1813) . . . / 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... | |
 | John Carson - 2007 - 430 頁
...of nature" NATURAL ARISTOCRACY, REPUBLICAN POLITIES, AND THE MEANINGS OF TALENT For 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. 
