 | Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen - 1992 - 492 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1993 - 500 pages
...Holmes, "that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons." 143 How could white people "throw away" "the blessings" of liberty and republicanism for the sake of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self government and happiness in their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it." 99 The ambiguous antislavery posture of Jefferson and Madison grew out of... | |
 | Jefferson Humphries, John Lowe - 1996 - 209 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it." 1 1 This story, Jefferson's, is crucial because it is chronologically the... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - 1998 - 278 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my own consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. 20 But even Jefferson, who was probably... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 pages
...generation of 1776, to establish self-government and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of our sons. My only consolation is that I live not to weep over it. If our sons would only contemplate... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1959 - 746 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
 | Dan R. Frost - 2000 - 230 pages
...the Union over mere political considerations. He lamented that the sacrifices made "by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to...away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons."10 Jefferson's qualified vision of progress represents a transition from traditional republican... | |
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I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that... 
