 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...their adherence to England and monarchy, in preference to their own country and its constitutions. But merchants have no country. The mere spot they...for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire them, and to effect this, they have perverted the best religion ever preached to man into mystery and... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1901 - 458 pages
...but lies and slander still remain to them." Again he says : " Ministers and merchants love nobody. In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty." These bitter reflections were provoked by the publication in pamphlet form for campaign purposes of... | |
 | 1906 - 812 pages
...a great increase of many thousand pieces of bread (transubstantiation). THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRES. USA In every country and in every age the priest has been...abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. PROF. GOLDWIN SMITH (CANADA). The mighty and supreme Jesus who was to transfigure all humanity with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...the World furnishes no other example. MERCHANTS have no country. The mere spot on which they stand does not constitute so strong an attachment as that...abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. 14. 119. HOW can expedition be expected from a body which we have saddled with an hundred lawyers,... | |
 | Thomas Speed Mosby - 1913 - 406 pages
...stage of development in advance of the state. Thomas Jefferson was clearly wrong when he wrote 21 that: "In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty." It was Archbishop Anselm who led the opposition to the tyranny of William Rufus and extorted the first... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 pages
...Jefferson had little use for ministers of the Gospel, speaking of them in the following fashion: 53 In every country and in every age the priest has been...abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. . . . The serious enemies are the priests of the different religious sects to whose spells on the human... | |
 | 1926 - 614 pages
...Jacob, and the local God of Israel." Jefferson had little use for clergymen. He spoke of them thus : In every country and in every age the priest has been...abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. . . . The serious enemies are the priests of the different religious sects, to whose spells on the... | |
 | Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them. In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection for his own. If anybody thinks... | |
 | Charles B. Sanford - 1984 - 260 pages
...progress, Jefferson concluded from his Enlightenment studies, were the clergy and the church. He wrote, "In every country and in every age, the priest has...abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." From his observations while minister to France, Jefferson wrote to George Wythe of the ignorance, superstition,... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1996 - 72 pages
...the visible world, and rises from and melts back into the mystic Principle of his Universal Self. ;-' "In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to Liberty; he is always in allegiance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection for his own."—Thomas Jefferson.... | |
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In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. 
