| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 620 páginas
...Pardon, I pray you, the temporary delirium which has been excited here, but which is fast passing away. The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 páginas
...of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so." " The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 páginas
...was fast passing away." He added, in a vein which we shall find more strongly developed hereafter : " The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 páginas
...we shall find more strongly developed hereafter : " The Gothic idea that we are to look backward-) instead of forwards for the improvement of the human...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 páginas
...Pardon, I pray yon, the temporary delirium which has been excited here, but which is fast passing away. The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 730 páginas
...of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so." " The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the buman mind, and to recur to the aunals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in... | |
| 1877 - 1284 páginas
...to remind two learned professions that the author of our imperishable Declaration of 1776 declared: "The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1888 - 884 páginas
...through a long line of reformers like Asehain, Milton, Locke, Fenelon, Basedow, Kousseau, Festalozzi, Jacotot, and Lan. caster, the Christian era has been...which broadens and deepens as it flows toward the sea,—its momentum and its value increased by volume even with diminished velocity. It must be not... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1896 - 544 páginas
...Pardon, I pray you, the temporary delirium which has been excited here, but which is fast passing away. The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion & in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion & government,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 páginas
...as they are more or less friendly to us. (To Elbridge Gerry, 1799. F. VII., 327-329-) PROGRESS. — The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is not perfect in government, in religion and in learning is worthy of those bigots in religion and government... | |
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