 | Erik S. Root - 2008 - 268 Seiten
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." It also contradicts Algernon Sydney's famous statement similar to Jefferson's: Man therefore must be... | |
 | Steven Waldman - 2008 - 306 Seiten
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been bom with saddles on thcir backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of Cod,"" This seems to be a reference both to divine-right-based monarchical tyranny in general and to... | |
 | David Tucker - 2008 - 182 Seiten
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born, with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god."8 Given the role that science was supposed to play in Jefferson's republic, it is a profound irony... | |
 | Howard J. Wiarda - 2007 - 302 Seiten
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."17 In other words, although creatures like horses are not born literally "with saddles on their... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
