 My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 109by Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 612 pages
...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is. I have expressed to you my sentiments, because they are really those of ninety-nine in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is. I have expressed to you my sentiments, because they are really those of ninety-nine in... | |
 | American essays - 1873 - 794 pages
...than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated ! Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." Gouverneur Morris was then American Minister in France, — a very able gentleman and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free,...conservatism in regard to the appropriate aims of the French Revolution—or else, that inasmuch as France had advanced to the Constitution of 1791 —the anomalous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." ' Washington, who contemplated the French revolution with a less sanguine eye than Jefferson,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 620 pages
...than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is. I have expressed to you my senti ments, because they are really those of ninety-nine... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 802 pages
...rather than that it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would have been better than it now is." When fully assured of Lafayette's fate, Washington felt an ardent... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.'* In 1793, when this apology was written, the bonnet rouge was in request at Philadelphia.... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...it .should have failed, I would have seen half tiie earth desolated ; were there but an Adam and Kve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it is now."' * * Letter to Mr. Short. Jefferson's Works, iii., 501. letter from GJouverneur /Borrf0... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pages
...but, rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is." The mingled folly and ferocity of this passage would almost lead to a doubt of the sanity... | |
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