 It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy. We had seen little men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held...  The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains - Página 121por Owen Wister - 1919 - 423 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Starr Jordan - 1907 - 102 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to...nature. Therefore we decreed that every man should, True Aristocracy The Talents of the Few An Early View thenceforth have equal liberty to find his own... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1908 - 596 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to...acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, say1 Copyright, 1902, by The Macmillan Company. 383 ing, "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - 1911 - 414 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artifically held down in low places, and our own justiceloving hearts abhorred this violence to...aristocracy, saying 'Let the best man win, whoever he is.' Let the best man win I That is America's word. That is true democracy." The strength of our... | |
 | William Palmer Smith - 1913 - 396 páginas
...places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to human nature. Therefore, we decree that every man should thenceforth have equal liberty to find his own level. OWEN WISTER: The Virginian. To learn to speak off-hand in public, speak in your own room, privately,... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - 1916 - 266 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to...aristocracy, saying ' Let the best man win, whoever he is.' Let the best man win I That is America's word. That is true democracy. And true democracy and... | |
 | Frederick Redman Clow - 1920 - 460 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to...aristocracy, saying, "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let the best man win ! That is America's word. That is true democracy. And true democracy and... | |
 | John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 páginas
...seen little men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred the violence to human nature. Therefore, we decreed that...aristocracy, saying "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let the best man win! That is America's word. That is true democracy. And true democracy and... | |
 | Nina Silber - 1997 - 276 páginas
...quality and the equality." In decreeing that every man was equal, the Declaration of Independence merely "acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, 'let the best man win, whoever he is.'" The Virginian, of course, became the ultimate winner, the natural, and clearly southern, aristocrat... | |
 | Jeffrey M. Wallmann - 1999 - 260 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to...nature. Therefore, we decreed that every man should henceforth have equal liberty to find his own level" (p. 147). The result is to "see folks movin' up... | |
 | Hinrik Schünemann - 2000 - 542 páginas
...men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to...liberty to find his own level. By this very decree w£ acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, 'Let the best man win, whoever he is.'... | |
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