 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...served its purpose very well, in 1776 at the head of the declaration, said, in 1813 :* "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers » Jefferson's Works. Charlottesville: 1829. Vol. i?., p. 227. gave place among... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you, that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the arisloi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 636 pages
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of* breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...independence, the great republican leader took yet higher and nobler ground. " I agree with you," he said, " that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 364 pages
...letter, — written after both had filled the office of President, Jefferson says, "I agree with you, that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . This natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction,... | |
 | History - 1884 - 624 pages
...reasoning more absurd, sophistry more gross," continued Adams . . . "than the subtle VOL. XII —No i._ 4 labor of Helvetius and Rousseau to demonstrate the...phrases and doctrines of Rousseau? Did it contain asingle allusion to a school which, influential in Europe, has by some been assumed to have been equally... | |
 | History - 1884 - 624 pages
...reasoning more absurd, sophistry more gross," continued Adams . . . "than the subtle VOL. XII -No i.—4 labor of Helvetius and Rousseau to demonstrate the...phrases and doctrines of Rousseau? Did it contain asingle allusion to a school which, influential in Europe, has by some been assumed to have been equally... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1898 - 580 pages
...with the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed... | |
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But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness, and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. 
