Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States: And Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration, Band 139Houghton Mifflin, 1909 - 119 Seiten |
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... less frank , is the style of his letter in answer to General Braddock's invitation to join him as aid - de - camp . The letter is addressed to Braddock's secretary , and begins as follows : " SIR : I was not favored with your polite ...
... less frank , is the style of his letter in answer to General Braddock's invitation to join him as aid - de - camp . The letter is addressed to Braddock's secretary , and begins as follows : " SIR : I was not favored with your polite ...
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... less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill , and sleep under frost and snow , without clothes or blankets . However , although they seem to have little feeling ...
... less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill , and sleep under frost and snow , without clothes or blankets . However , although they seem to have little feeling ...
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... interest in union , all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength , greater resource , proportionably greater security from external danger , a less frequent 28 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... interest in union , all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength , greater resource , proportionably greater security from external danger , a less frequent 28 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations , and , what is of inestimable value , they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and ' wars between themselves , which so frequently afflict neighboring ...
... less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations , and , what is of inestimable value , they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and ' wars between themselves , which so frequently afflict neighboring ...
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... less stifled , controlled , or re- pressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness , and is truly their worst enemy . The alternate domination of one faction over an- other , sharpened by the spirit of ...
... less stifled , controlled , or re- pressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness , and is truly their worst enemy . The alternate domination of one faction over an- other , sharpened by the spirit of ...
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Seite 29 - The basis of our political systems is, the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government : but, the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Seite 25 - But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.
Seite 38 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Seite 65 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Seite 24 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me on an occasion like the present to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Seite 9 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Seite 23 - ... and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead...
Seite 7 - I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water : but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island to quit our raft and make to it.
Seite 32 - ... prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which, nevertheless, ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continued mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
Seite 95 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration, forever I VOL.