Familiar Letters on Public Characters, and Public Events, from the Peace of 1783, to the Peace of 1815 |
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... American public to assume , that they are incompetent , or unwilling , to judge calmly and justly of historical truth , whatsoever it may prove to be , or whencesoever it may come . But , if the men of this day are so near to that time ...
... American public to assume , that they are incompetent , or unwilling , to judge calmly and justly of historical truth , whatsoever it may prove to be , or whencesoever it may come . But , if the men of this day are so near to that time ...
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... are supposed to have some ministry in the human mind . One may venture to pay the tribute to the American people of believing , that a * they can arrive at and value truth ; and that Governor Hancock-state of society LETTER.
... are supposed to have some ministry in the human mind . One may venture to pay the tribute to the American people of believing , that a * they can arrive at and value truth ; and that Governor Hancock-state of society LETTER.
Page vi
... American is deeply concerned ; and , if Mr. Jefferson has been unjust to public benefactors , every American is interested that his errors should be made known . If the maintenance of constitutional liberty be the object , there may be ...
... American is deeply concerned ; and , if Mr. Jefferson has been unjust to public benefactors , every American is interested that his errors should be made known . If the maintenance of constitutional liberty be the object , there may be ...
Page viii
... Americans will preserve civil liberty ; not through virtue and intelligence alone , but through these and the conservative power of INTEREST ; and through interest , because the American institutions are distinguished from any others ...
... Americans will preserve civil liberty ; not through virtue and intelligence alone , but through these and the conservative power of INTEREST ; and through interest , because the American institutions are distinguished from any others ...
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... Americans have no patent right , in the matter of government , nor any better assurance than other nations have , that ... American people . It was then an illustri- ous commentary on the experience of past ages ; precedented system ...
... Americans have no patent right , in the matter of government , nor any better assurance than other nations have , that ... American people . It was then an illustri- ous commentary on the experience of past ages ; precedented system ...
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Page 145 - And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 54 - And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship ( for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.
Page 187 - ... him and overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama of guilt and treason— this man is to be called the principal offender, while he, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere accessory...
Page 185 - Shenstone might have envied blooms around him. Music that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs is his. An extensive library spreads its treasures before him. A philosophical apparatus offers to him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity, and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And, to crown the enchantment of the scene, a wife, who is said to be lovely even beyond her sex, and graced with every accomplishment that can render it irresistible, had blessed him...
Page 152 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.
Page 164 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.
Page 58 - ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.
Page 285 - say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life ; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Page 192 - Let Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for — let the event be gradually broken to her; but give her hopes.
Page 164 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.