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... duties , refer to events , many of which must be within the scope of your memory . If , in the additions I have ventured to annex , yet not without misgivings as to my ability to enhance the value of the work , some pleasing ...
... duties , refer to events , many of which must be within the scope of your memory . If , in the additions I have ventured to annex , yet not without misgivings as to my ability to enhance the value of the work , some pleasing ...
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... duty of ordering their own welfare , they can and will justly estimate the means of accomplishing that purpose . We have no design to shock any one's prejudices . We are not dealing with Mr. Jefferson as an individual AUTHOR'S PREFACE ·
... duty of ordering their own welfare , they can and will justly estimate the means of accomplishing that purpose . We have no design to shock any one's prejudices . We are not dealing with Mr. Jefferson as an individual AUTHOR'S PREFACE ·
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... duties until Congress comprehends and performs its duty . Certainly the citizens of the United States will not much longer confer office on men who are willing that their land should be a home for the vice and pauperism of Europe ; and ...
... duties until Congress comprehends and performs its duty . Certainly the citizens of the United States will not much longer confer office on men who are willing that their land should be a home for the vice and pauperism of Europe ; and ...
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... duties , multiplied and arduous as they were , to interfere with a proper attention to the social obligations of life , which he ever held to be as imperative as his duties to his clients . It is a great pity that this spirit and ...
... duties , multiplied and arduous as they were , to interfere with a proper attention to the social obligations of life , which he ever held to be as imperative as his duties to his clients . It is a great pity that this spirit and ...
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... duties , to remain after dinner with his children at the table , where agreea- ble conversation , song and anecdote softened the cold realities of life , and united more closely the natural ties of affection which bound his circle ...
... duties , to remain after dinner with his children at the table , where agreea- ble conversation , song and anecdote softened the cold realities of life , and united more closely the natural ties of affection which bound his circle ...
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Page 258 - Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace and decorates it with every romantic embellishment of fancy. A shrubbery that 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...
Page 212 - 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 . . . every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
Page 237 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for, an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.
Page 371 - 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 219 - 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 267 - I feel a sense of obligation towards my creditors ; who in case of accident to me, by the forced sale of my property, may be in some degree sufferers. I did not think myself at liberty as a man of probity, lightly to expose them to this hazard, 4.
Page 188 - Purge that constitution of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would be the most perfect constitution ever devised by the wit of man.' Hamilton paused and said, ' Purge it of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would become an impracticable government : as it stands at present, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect government which ever existed.
Page 212 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 103 - Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Page 265 - Let Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for — let the event be gradually broken to her; but give her hopes.