The Public Men of the Revolution: Including Events from the Peace of 1783 to the Peace of 1815 |
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... the 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 ·
... the 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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... means of intellectual , religious , and , consequently , of moral culture , it may possibly come to be a gene- rally admitted truth , that public life can be neither honorable nor profitable to the individual , when not honorable and ...
... means of intellectual , religious , and , consequently , of moral culture , it may possibly come to be a gene- rally admitted truth , that public life can be neither honorable nor profitable to the individual , when not honorable and ...
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... means intended to suggest , that either of these magistrates intended des- potism . Neither of them had any such design . But if either of them had gone but little further , he might have glided into ab- solute dominion under the full ...
... means intended to suggest , that either of these magistrates intended des- potism . Neither of them had any such design . But if either of them had gone but little further , he might have glided into ab- solute dominion under the full ...
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... means of all except the opu- lent . The heart , in its liberal sense , has been sacrificed to gaudy exhibitions of the purse , which only serve to awaken the vilest passions of envy and low ambition . The author of these Letters was six ...
... means of all except the opu- lent . The heart , in its liberal sense , has been sacrificed to gaudy exhibitions of the purse , which only serve to awaken the vilest passions of envy and low ambition . The author of these Letters was six ...
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... means , ( and some of them were wealthy from privateering , ) and all who had credit in Eng- land , engaged in importing English manufactures . This traffic drained the country of specie , and introduced articles of luxury , which the ...
... means , ( and some of them were wealthy from privateering , ) and all who had credit in Eng- land , engaged in importing English manufactures . This traffic drained the country of specie , and introduced articles of luxury , which the ...
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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.