 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 pages
...politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...politeness, and other accomplishments has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy 1 consider as the most precious... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these, it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best, which provides... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...politeness, and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground pf dis« tinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents ; for with these it would belong1 to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents ; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 pages
...politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents ; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 pages
...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 talents ; for, with these, it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy, I consider as the most... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 pages
...governing, or endowed for this by the Creator, and entitled to it as a personal and inalienable right. " An artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents," he said, " is a mischievous ingredient in government; and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency."... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 pages
...politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground for distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents ; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1893 - 406 pages
...the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts and the government of society. . . . An artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents, is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.... | |
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The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. 
