| Eric P. KAUFMANN - 2004 - 398 páginas
...dreams of the future better than the history of the past," or, in writing to Joseph Priestley in 1800, "[The] Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forwards . . . and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion... | |
| Tom Streeter - 2006 - 460 páginas
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| 1987 - 100 páginas
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| Democratic women's luncheon club, Philadelphia - 1922 - 810 páginas
...Jefferson, who wrote on one occasion "The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forward for the improvement of the human mind, and 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... | |
| John Ashhurst - 1877 - 1222 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...of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, arid to recur to the annals of oar ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and... | |
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