THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Volume 12American stationers' Company; J. B. Russell, 1837 - United States |
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... pleased to favor the American people with op- portunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity , and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union A * and the ...
... pleased to favor the American people with op- portunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity , and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union A * and the ...
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... pleased to invest me by their act , entitled " An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States , " and on ma- ture consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of the several ...
... pleased to invest me by their act , entitled " An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States , " and on ma- ture consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of the several ...
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... pleased to confer upon us . And , also , that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations , and beseech him to par- don our national and other transgressions ; to enable ...
... pleased to confer upon us . And , also , that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations , and beseech him to par- don our national and other transgressions ; to enable ...
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... pleased to receive my best acknowledg- ments for the renewal of them on the present occasion . If the affectionate partiality of my fellow - citizens has prompted them to attribute greater effects to my conduct and character , than were ...
... pleased to receive my best acknowledg- ments for the renewal of them on the present occasion . If the affectionate partiality of my fellow - citizens has prompted them to attribute greater effects to my conduct and character , than were ...
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... pleased with the justice you have done to the motives from which I have acted , and by thanking you for the tender concern you have been pleased to manifest for my personal felicity . GEORGE WASHINGTON . TO THE MAYOR , RECORder ...
... pleased with the justice you have done to the motives from which I have acted , and by thanking you for the tender concern you have been pleased to manifest for my personal felicity . GEORGE WASHINGTON . TO THE MAYOR , RECORder ...
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Page 226 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Page 226 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 224 - I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. — 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.
Page 222 - To the efficacy and permanency of Your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.
Page 231 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 223 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Page 3 - Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments...
Page 1 - ... flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust...
Page 133 - In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Page 228 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; 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.