 Nor was it uninteresting to the world, that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth — whether a government, conducting itself in the...  Cobbett's Political Register - Page 639edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | John Sharp Williams - History - 1913 - 352 pages
...permanent policy of the Republic, by asking: — "Whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, was not sufficient for the propagation and protection...spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no acts which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness — can be written down... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1926 - 584 pages
...left to find their punishment in the public indignation. Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether...spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down byfalsehood... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...did not repent of the freedom of the press. It was not, he wrote, "uninteresting to the world, that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not suff1cient for the propagation and protection of truth — whether a government, conducting itself... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety. . . . Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made whether...spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...left to find their punishment in the public indignation. Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether...spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...left to find their punishment in the public indignation. Nor was it uninteresting to the world, that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether...spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by... | |
 | Peter McNamara - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...explained his administration's policy as an "experiment" that had been "fairly and fully made" to determine "whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power,...sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth" and "whether a government, conducting itself in the true spirit of its constitution with zeal and purity,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Noble E. Cunningham - History - 2001 - 132 pages
...to find their own punishment in the public indignation. Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether...government, conducting itself in the true spirit of it's constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - Political Science - 2007 - 275 pages
...of the press before the court of public opinion presented the "world" with an "experiment" testing whether "freedom of discussion, unaided by power is...not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth."82 By presenting the politics of scandal in these terms, Jefferson added to the argument for... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1858 - 802 pages
...left to find their punishment in the public indignation. Nor was it uninteresting to the world, that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether...spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by... | |
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