 | Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - 374 str.
...liberty and even life itself are but dreary things." The stipulated dreariness in life comes not from the "the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty," though Jefferson alludes to that record of unhappiness, but from the personal misery that individuals... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 str.
...intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered we have yet gained little, if we countenance political intolerance, as despotic as wicked and capable of as bitter and bloody persecution."18 Education for Self-Government Jefferson endorsed the Enlightenment project of "diffusion... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 str.
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. The full-throated power of this passage is that it rhetorically underscores its substantive message... | |
 | Peter Wallenstein - 2007 - 508 str.
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions." Americans knew very well that they often differed in their opinions, but he insisted, "Every difference... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - 2007 - 256 str.
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions." "Every difference of opinion," he observed, "is not a difference of principle. . . . We are all republicans... | |
 | Nancy Isenberg - 2007 - 572 str.
...later. Jefferson, too, used violent imagery to characterize a society wrought by powerful passions: "the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty." Jefferson was wishing to "restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty... | |
 | Leroy G. Dorsey - 2008 - 284 str.
...the mixed metaphors in the extended sentence that expresses the same idea in a more flowery rhetoric: "During the throes and convulsions of the ancient...should reach even this distant and peaceful shore." If he made light of "spasms" transformed into "billows" it may have been because his primary complaint... | |
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Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered,... 
