 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 σελίδες
...to content ourselves with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy...among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 σελίδες
...to content ourselves with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy...among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 σελίδες
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with yon, that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 σελίδες
...to content ourselves with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you, that there is a natural aristocracy...among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the arisloi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 σελίδες
...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...among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers » Jefferson's Works. Charlottesville: 1829. Vol. i?., p. 227. gave place among... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 σελίδες
...to content ourselves with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of* breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy...among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
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I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile... 
