Letters and AddressesUnit Book Publishing Company, 1908 - 489 halaman |
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... attempt any thing in this matter , pray let me know by the first opportunity how you have suc- ceeded in it , and how those gentlemen stand affected . If they seem inclinable to promote my interests , and things should be drawing to a ...
... attempt any thing in this matter , pray let me know by the first opportunity how you have suc- ceeded in it , and how those gentlemen stand affected . If they seem inclinable to promote my interests , and things should be drawing to a ...
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... attempt a description of the people's distresses , though I have a generous soul , sensible of wrongs , and swelling for redress . But what can I do ? If bleeding , dying ! would glut their insatiate revenge , I would be a willing ...
... attempt a description of the people's distresses , though I have a generous soul , sensible of wrongs , and swelling for redress . But what can I do ? If bleeding , dying ! would glut their insatiate revenge , I would be a willing ...
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... attempting to vindicate the char- acters of all the officers : For that I am sensible would be a task too arduous . There are some who have the seeds of Idleness too strongly instilled into their constitution , either to be serviceable ...
... attempting to vindicate the char- acters of all the officers : For that I am sensible would be a task too arduous . There are some who have the seeds of Idleness too strongly instilled into their constitution , either to be serviceable ...
Halaman 28
... attempt this season will be made , I fear , to destroy this hold of barbarians , for they deserve no better name , who have become a terror to three populous colonies . Virginia may justly say , that she was always willing to furnish ...
... attempt this season will be made , I fear , to destroy this hold of barbarians , for they deserve no better name , who have become a terror to three populous colonies . Virginia may justly say , that she was always willing to furnish ...
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... attempt particularizing their Actions since you receive accts . in a channel so much more direct than from hence . I am now I believe fixd at this seat with an agreable Consort for Life . And hope to find more happiness in retirement 35 ...
... attempt particularizing their Actions since you receive accts . in a channel so much more direct than from hence . I am now I believe fixd at this seat with an agreable Consort for Life . And hope to find more happiness in retirement 35 ...
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Halaman 394 - It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Halaman 394 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
Halaman 400 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
Halaman 397 - To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the...
Halaman 402 - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good ; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of...
Halaman 393 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is indeed little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Halaman 319 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Halaman 397 - One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which...
Halaman 392 - ... a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute. They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Halaman 388 - ... minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress, against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, (though often covertly and insidiously,) directed, it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union, to your collective and individual happiness...