 May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to...  Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson - 第 441 頁Thomas Jefferson 著 - 1830完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Michael S. Kimmel - 1990 - 268 頁
...Independence as a revolutionary document (cited in Calvert, 1970: 71): May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others...chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition have persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.... | |
 | Edward J. Erler - 1991 - 144 頁
...Declaration of Independence on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary: May it be to the world ... the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise... | |
 | Charles B. Sanford - 1984 - 260 頁
...Jefferson wrote that the Declaration had encouraged "the spread of the light of science" and was still "arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish...assume the blessings and security of self-government." Jefferson thus djed championing the causes of liberty and Enlightenment for which he had lived, trusting... | |
 | Thomas Gustafson - 1992 - 500 頁
...last extant letter of his life that the Fourth of July must be seen as a light unto the world, or a signal "of arousing men to burst the chains under...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves" (JLA, 1517). For Jefferson, the course of human events in the Colonies, which necessitated an insurrection... | |
 | Arthur Aughey, Greta Jones, William Terence Martin Riches - 1992 - 192 頁
...persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. The form which we have substituted restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of freedom and opinion. All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1993 - 500 頁
...In the last letter he wrote, he expressed his lifelong belief that the American Revolution would be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under...the blessings and security of self-government."'" In Yet these expressions of confidence in the future progress of the Enlightenment were fewer and farther... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 頁
...his lifeless hand: Reasserting the significance of the American experiment, may it be to the world a signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which...to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and securities of self-government. All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general mass... | |
 | James M. Gabler - 1995 - 344 頁
...of what it would mean to future generations, he left this prophecy: "May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others...assume the blessings and security of self-government ... all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 頁
...celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: "May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others...assume the blessings and security of self-government . " And after Jefferson and John Adams died on the Fourth of July 1826, Madison recalled the Revolutionary... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 頁
...was the signal to the world, to some parts sooner, to some parts later, but finally to all, to arouse "men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government." The people were held down by the superstitions they believed — that kings ruled by divine prerogative... | |
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