 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 Seiten
...never made the confidants of my creed. My answer was "say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world...religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." Affectionately adieu. TO WILLIAM SAMPSON j. uss. MONTICELLO, Jan. t6, 17. DEAR SIR, — I have read... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 Seiten
...he had made any change in his religion. He replied, " Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world...be sought in my life ; if that has been honest and beautiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." We have seen that Mr.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 Seiten
...he had made any change in his religion. He replied, " Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world...be sought in my life; if that has been honest and beautiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." We have seen that Mr.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1906 - 480 Seiten
...alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and beautiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." We have seen that Mr. Jefferson was a profound and independent thinker; he called no man master, and... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1926 - 484 Seiten
...religion before, taking for it the word of their priests, whom I certainly never made the confidents of my creed. My answer was, ' say nothing of my religion....religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.' " — 1817. Vol. iv. p. 308. 12. IMPROVEMENTS REALISED AND DESIRED. — "Atthe first session of our... | |
 | John Adams, Thomas Jefferson - 1925 - 204 Seiten
...never made the confidents of my creed. My answer was, 'say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world...religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.' Affectionately adieu." Adams to Jefferson: "February 2, 1817. "I am glad to see that De la Plane has... | |
 | 1879 - 532 Seiten
...only to one Being. To himself, therefore, I replied : " Say nothing of my Religion ; it is known to my God and myself alone ; its evidence before the world...which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." It is a singular anxiety which some people have that we should all think alike. Would the world be more beautiful... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 Seiten
...religion much spoken of in some circles My answer was, 'Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world...religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.' " The priests indeed have heretofore thought proper to ascribe to me religious, or rather anti-religious,... | |
 | Charles B. Sanford - 1984 - 260 Seiten
...for his religion "only to one Being." "Say nothing of my religion," he instructed. "It is known to my God and myself alone; its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been dutiful to society the Religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."31 Religion, then, for... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 Seiten
...while ex-Presidents Jefferson and Madison looked on. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world...religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. To John Adams, Monticello, Jan.ll, 1817 From sunrise to one or two o'clock, and often from dinner to... | |
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say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life ; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. 
