 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...rights of men will rise up against this privileged Solomon and his Haram, and oblige us to continue and to content ourselves with the accidental aristoi...talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the arisloi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...equal — which served its purpose very well, in 1776 at the head of the declaration, said, in 1813 :* "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy...this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers » Jefferson's Works. Charlottesville: 1829. Vol. i?., p. 227. gave place among the aristoi. But since... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 pages
...independence, the great republican leader took yet higher and nobler ground. " I agree with you," he said, " 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... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...an essay than a letter, — written after both had filled the office of President, Jefferson says, " 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,... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pages
...Rousseau to demonstrate the natural equality of mankind." " I agree with you," replied Jefferson, " that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." He did not as much as defend the Rousseau of whom, in the year of the Declaration, he is alleged to... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pages
...Rousseau to demonstrate the natural equality of mankind." " I agree with you," replied Jefferson, " that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." He did not as much as defend the Rousseau of whom, in the year of the Declaration, he is alleged to... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1893 - 392 pages
...Jefferson and John Adams 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 pages
...Jefferson and John Adams 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 pages
...universal 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... | |
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I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. 
