 | Walter Stahr - 2005 - 520 Seiten
...same occasion, Jefferson wrote that he hoped America's independence would be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government." Jay saw the Revolution as mainly American history, not world history, and saw it as God's particular... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 2006 - 208 Seiten
...believe it will be (to some parts sooner, toothers later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2006 - 344 Seiten
...wrote he expressed his lifelong belief that the American Revolution would be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government." He foresaw that eventually the whole world "(to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 Seiten
...independence] will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government.. . All eyes are opened, or are opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 Seiten
...believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - 2007 - 392 Seiten
...believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - 2007 - 275 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government." According to this formulation, the Declaration was meant to be a kind of midwife to democracy throughout... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 Seiten
...believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. . . . All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science... | |
 | David Armitage - 2007 - 332 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self government."' Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, two weeks after sending this letter. He had written... | |
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May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume... 
