 Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion.  A History of American Political Theories - Page 145by Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1899 - 516 pages
...at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from чг-у particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests, then, on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether «pressed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1902 - 776 pages
...charged that the substance of the Declaration had been "hackneyed in Congress for two years before."2 Jefferson himself was fully conscious that the originality...presenting to the world a series of new or hitherto 1 A useful classification of Jefferson's ideas on a great variety of subjects is made by JP Foley in... | |
 | Nebraska State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 172 pages
...at originality of principle or sentiment, nop yef copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests, then, on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 598 pages
...at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - Church and state - 1922 - 354 pages
...aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular or previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - United States - 1923 - 428 pages
...at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonising sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - Democracy - 1923 - 754 pages
...aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular or previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed... | |
 | United States - 1926 - 584 pages
...aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular or previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American...expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. Due to this fact, few, if any, political documents have more profoundly influenced the struggling... | |
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