 All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted...  The Boston News-letter: And City Record - Page 211826Full view - About this book
 | Maurice A. Richter - 1858 - 318 pages
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored Jne, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." No better explanation of the true meaning of this much-disputed sentence can be found than that in... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - 1859 - 338 pages
...the rights of man. The general spread of the lights of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their back's, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 pages
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind have not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." This was the last echo of the fire which was wont to inspire senates, which had breathed in the early... | |
 | 1863 - 434 pages
...to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor f favored few booted and fjn>rrcd, ready to ride them legitimatdy, by the grace of God," etc. The above... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind have not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." This was the last echo of the fire which was wont to inspire senates, which had breathed in the early... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1875 - 444 pages
...reformers of America, who take for their motto certain famous words from Jefferson's last letter, namely, " The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their back, for a favoured few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God."... | |
 | 1883 - 410 pages
...tempest arc already siehine and moaning to him who hath ears to hear. AMD THE mass of mankind have not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured...ready to ride them legitimately by the Grace of God. — jfefftrsen's last fitter. THE most degraded slaves are the last to demand freedom. The worst-paid... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1884 - 666 pages
...made manifest " that the mass of mankind have not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Already has this truth aroused the one-half of thiscontinent from the lethargy in which it has so long... | |
 | Robert Alonzo Brock - 1888 - 434 pages
...the rights of man. The general spread of the lights of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not...ready to ride them legitimately, ' by the grace of God ! '" Two days after this lutter was written, an indisposition under which Mr. Jefferson was laboring... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1921 - 776 pages
...Independence. In it he says, "The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the Grace of God." The next half-century... | |
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