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" I should have shut up the Queen in a convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the King in his station, investing him with limited powers, which, I verily believe, he would have honestly exercised, according to the measure of his understanding. "
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science - Page 24
1851
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Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political ..., Volume 16

1897 - 340 pages
...the death of Louis XVI]. I should have shut up the Queen in a convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the King in his station, investing him...verily believe, he would have honestly exercised. In this way no void would have been created, courting the usurpation of a military adventurer, nor...
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The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 538 pages
...portion of the legislature. I should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him...destroyed, and is yet to destroy millions and millions of it's inhabitants. There are three epochs in history signalized by the total extinction of national...
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Library of Southern Literature: Biography

Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 520 pages
...portion of the Legislature. I should have shut up the Queen in a convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the King in his station, investing him...enormities which demoralized the nations of the world, and destroyed,.and are yet to destroy, millions and millions of its inhabitants. ...... And here, I cannot...
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Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 pages
...portion of the legislature. I should have shut up the Queen in a convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the King in his station, investing him...destroy, millions and millions of its inhabitants." Jefferson's stay in Paris was now drawing to a close. Necker and Montmorin were restored to office,...
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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty -

Dumas Malone - 1962 - 606 pages
...his late seventies: ... I should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him...created, courting the usurpation of a military adventurer [Bonaparte] nor occasion given for those enormities which demoralized the nations of the world, and...
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Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-century American Autobiography

Susan Clair Imbarrato - 1998 - 200 pages
...the monarchy's woes: "I should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him...exercised, according to the measure of his understanding" (93). This condemnation of royal debauchery and exploitation allows Jefferson to promote his democratic,...
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Jefferson: Political Writings

Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...portion of the legislature. I should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him...destroyed, and is yet to destroy millions and millions of it's inhabitants. There are three epochs in 128 history signalized by the total extinction of national...
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Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen

Dena Goodman - 2003 - 338 pages
...the queen's eviction: I should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out ot her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him...understanding. In this way no void would have been created, court ing the usurpation of a military adventurer, nor occasion given tor those enormities which demoralized...
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Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen

Dena Goodman - 2003 - 340 pages
...the queen's eviction: 1 should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him with limited powers, which 1 verily believe he would have honestly exercised, according to the measure ot his understanding. 1n...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Robert Walsh - 1829 - 594 pages
...portion of the legislature. I should have shut up the Queen in a convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the King in his station, investing him...destroy millions and millions of its inhabitants. There are three epochs in history, signalized by the total extinction of national morality. The first...
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