 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 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,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 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 - United States - 1829 - 662 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 to their country, is to be thrown avray by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 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,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-goverument and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that 1 live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 208 pages
...ultimately whether man is capable of self-government. 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."— JEFFERSON'S Memoirs, Vol. IV. pp. 331, 333. I regret that I am now to... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...themselves, by the generation of 1 776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to he thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of...sons ; and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it." — JEFFERSON'S Memoirs, Vol. IV. pp. 331, 333. It was, indeed, an experiment,... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 624 pages
...The population for 1847, is from the estimate of Edmund Burke, Esq., Commissioner ef Patent». try, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to be. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away against... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government ana happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their son:', and that my (inly consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately... | |
 | 1848 - 708 pages
...useless sacrieice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government ana happiIien8 to their country, is to be thrown away by the Unwise and unworthy passions of [heir sone, and that my only consolation is to be that 1 live not to wrep over it. If they would but... | |
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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... 
