 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 620 pages
...Pardon, I pray you, the temporary delirium which has been excited here, but which is fast passing away. The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 728 pages
...was fast passing away." He added, in a vein which we shall find more strongly developed hereafter : " The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so." " The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 pages
...we shall find more strongly developed hereafter : " The Gothic idea that we are to look backward-) instead of forwards for the improvement of the human...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...Pardon, I pray yon, the temporary delirium which has been excited here, but which is fast passing away. The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 730 pages
...of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so." " The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the buman mind, and to recur to the aunals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in... | |
 | 1877 - 1284 pages
...to remind two learned professions that the author of our imperishable Declaration of 1776 declared: "The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion, and learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - Education - 1888 - 884 pages
...reformers like Asehain, Milton, Locke, Fenelon, Basedow, Kousseau, Festalozzi, Jacotot, and Lan. caster, the Christian era has been one of constant progress...which broadens and deepens as it flows toward the sea,—its momentum and its value increased by volume even with diminished velocity. It must be not... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1896 - 544 pages
...Pardon, I pray you, the temporary delirium which has been excited here, but which is fast passing away. The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion & in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion & government,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...as they are more or less friendly to us. (To Elbridge Gerry, 1799. F. VII., 327-329-) PROGRESS. — The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead...to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is not perfect in government, in religion and in learning is worthy of those bigots in religion and government... | |
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The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion... 
