The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Band 5C.P. Wayne., 1807 |
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... character low in the political scale ; ... and this , unless more wisdom and less prejudice take the lead in our government , will most certainly happen . " That the imbecility of the federal government , the impotence of its ...
... character low in the political scale ; ... and this , unless more wisdom and less prejudice take the lead in our government , will most certainly happen . " That the imbecility of the federal government , the impotence of its ...
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... character the more seriously , because the terms of the treaty were universally considered as being highly advan- tageous to the United States . The recriminations on the part of individuals in America , were also uttered with the angry ...
... character the more seriously , because the terms of the treaty were universally considered as being highly advan- tageous to the United States . The recriminations on the part of individuals in America , were also uttered with the angry ...
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... character of the nation abroad , and its interests at home . The other party marked out for itself a more indulgent course . Viewing with extreme tenderness the case of the debtor , their efforts were unceasingly directed to his relief ...
... character of the nation abroad , and its interests at home . The other party marked out for itself a more indulgent course . Viewing with extreme tenderness the case of the debtor , their efforts were unceasingly directed to his relief ...
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... character of the chief of the revolution . " It has been thought ad- visable to give this subject a very solemn ... characters to represent Virginia in the federal convention . You will infer our earnestness on this point , from the ...
... character of the chief of the revolution . " It has been thought ad- visable to give this subject a very solemn ... characters to represent Virginia in the federal convention . You will infer our earnestness on this point , from the ...
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... character ; the increasing languor of our associated republics you hourly see ; and a dissolution would be , I know , to you , a source of the deepest mortification . Mr. Randolph . 1783 to 1787 . CHAP . II . " I GEORGE WASHINGTON . 101.
... character ; the increasing languor of our associated republics you hourly see ; and a dissolution would be , I know , to you , a source of the deepest mortification . Mr. Randolph . 1783 to 1787 . CHAP . II . " I GEORGE WASHINGTON . 101.
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Seite 696 - 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.
Seite 702 - In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Seite 701 - And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
Seite 705 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected...
Seite 697 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. 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.
Seite 709 - ... hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence ; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
Seite 694 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured ? will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens ? To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable.
Seite 688 - ... agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead; amidst appearances sometimes dubious ; vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging ; in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected.
Seite 706 - Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand ; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things ; diffusing and diversifying, by gentle means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Seite 171 - ... there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...