 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 474 pages
...to govern itself as some self-appointed specialists were or would be to govern it. The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent...mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only—not from its privileged classes; and so, no matter what the nation's intellectual grade was,... | |
 | Friedrich Schönemann - 1925 - 140 pages
...Yankee" sprach er sich darüber im Zusammenhang mit „self-government" aus2): „The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation only — not from its privileged classes : and so, no matter what the nation's intellectual grade was,... | |
 | Mark Twain, Brian Collins - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 196 pages
...Notebook, ch. 33, entry for May 23, 1903, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935). ASSES, THE The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent...the nation only — not from its privileged classes. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. 15 (1889). !M ASTURBATION Michelangelo said to Pope... | |
 | Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 674 pages
...govern itself as some self-appointed specialists were, or would be, to govern it. The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent...the nation, and from the mass of the nation only. . . . and so it never saw the day that it had not the material in abundance whereby to govern itself.... | |
 | Louis J. Budd - Fiction - 2001 - 290 pages
...herd are as dumb & patient as their cattle," Hank tried to inflame their confidence: The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent...the nation, and from the mass of the nation only. . . . Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best governed and most free and... | |
 | Shelley Fisher Fishkin - History - 2002 - 330 pages
...Robert E. Weir In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain wrote, "The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent...mass of the nation only — not from its privileged classes."1 It was one of Twain's many blistering comments attacking the rich and powerful, all of which... | |
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The master-minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only — not from its privileged classes; and so, no matter what the nation's intellectual grade was, whether... 