 Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and...  Essays in Historical Criticism ... - Page 142by Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1901 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing, to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a people spread over an...of a small district, be subject to the infection of viplent passions ; or to the danger of combining in the pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying,... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a people spread over an extensive region, cannot, like the crouded inhabitants of a small district, be subject to the infection of violent passions ; or to the... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a people spread over an...violent passions ; or to the danger of combining in the pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying, that this is a distinction of peculiar importance.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a people spread over an...violent passions ; or to the danger of combining in the pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying, that this is a distinction of peculiar importance.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...indelible reproach ol decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a people spread over an...violent passions; or to the danger of combining in the pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying, that this is a distinction of peculiar importance.... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a People spread over an...danger of combining in pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying that this is a distinction of peculiar importance. I have, on the contrary, endeavored... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a People spread over an...danger of combining in pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying that this is a distinction of peculiar importance. I have, on the contrary, endeavored... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 772 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a People spread over an...danger of combining in pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying that this is a distinction of peculiar importance. I have, on the contrary, endeavored... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...indelible reproach, of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a people spread over an...violent passions ; or to the danger of combining in the pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying, that this is a distinction of peculiar importance.... | |
 | 1865 - 696 pages
...indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. It may be suggested, that a People spread over an...danger of combining in pursuit of unjust measures. I am far from denying that this is a distinction of peculiar importance. I have, on the contrary, endeavored... | |
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