 | Edward Channing - 1905 - 690 pages
...the opinions ol many men of that party in the following remarkable sentences spoken on July 7, 1801 : "We have now reached the consummation of democratic...have a country governed by blockheads and knaves. . . . Our sirnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished. . . . Can the imagination... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1912 - 684 pages
...the opinions ot many men of that party in the following remarkable sentences spoken on July 7, 1801: "We have now reached the consummation of democratic...have a country governed by blockheads and knaves. . . . Our sirnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished. . . . Can the imagination... | |
 | Roland Greene Usher - 1914 - 440 pages
...governed by blockheads and dunces," the brother of the President of Yale College told the students; "our children are cast into the world from the breast and forgotten ; filial piety is extinguished. ' ' "The principles of our Revolution," wrote Pickering to Cabot in 1804,15 "point to a remedy —... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1918 - 846 pages
...destroy every trace of civilization in the world, and force mankind back into a savage state. . . . We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves ; the ties of marriage are severed and destroyed ; our wives and daughters are thrown into the stews; our children are cast... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 222 pages
...the laws. Graduated by this scale, there can be no doubt that Jacobins have the highest quaifications for rulers. . . . We have now reached the consummation...children are cast into the world from the breast and are forgotten ; filial piety is extinguished, and our surnames, the only mark of distinction among... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - 1920 - 356 pages
...reached the consummation of democratic blessedness. [He is referring to the election of Jefferson.] We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves;...breast and forgotten; filial piety is extinguished, and surnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished. Can the imagination paint anything... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 390 pages
...villain in the community is the fittest person to make and execute the laws." "We have now," said he, "reached the consummation of democratic blessedness....have a country governed by blockheads and knaves." Here was an opposition which, if persisted in, might menace the integrity of the Union. Scarcely less... | |
 | 1921 - 612 pages
...villain in the community is the fittest person to make and execute the laws . " " We have now," said he, "reached the consummation of democratic blessedness....have a country governed by blockheads and knaves." Here was an opposition which, if persisted in, might mena< integrity of the Union. Scarcely less vexatious... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 376 pages
...villain in the community is the fittest person to make and execute the laws." "We have now," said he, "reached the consummation of democratic blessedness....have a country governed by blockheads and knaves." Here was an opposition which, if persisted in, might menace the integrity of the Union. Scarcely less... | |
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We have now reached the consummation of democratic blessedness. "We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves •, the ties of marriage, with all its felicities, are severed and destroyed ; our wives and daughters are thrown into the stews ; our... 
