Familiar Letters on Public Characters, and Public Events, from the Peace of 1783, to the Peace of 1815Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, 1834 - 345 من الصفحات |
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... united force of Shays and Day ; and of Eli Parsons , who led about 400 men from Berkshire . He had reason to believe that the advantage of attacking him before the arrival of Lincoln's troops would not be lost . But at noon on the 27th ...
... united force of Shays and Day ; and of Eli Parsons , who led about 400 men from Berkshire . He had reason to believe that the advantage of attacking him before the arrival of Lincoln's troops would not be lost . But at noon on the 27th ...
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... United States during the war until the year 1781. It was commonly called " The Con- gress . " It was one body , and exercised legislative and executive power ; and acted in the name of the states , in the negotiations with all foreign ...
... United States during the war until the year 1781. It was commonly called " The Con- gress . " It was one body , and exercised legislative and executive power ; and acted in the name of the states , in the negotiations with all foreign ...
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... United States after the adoption of the constitution ; but this not having happened , he went in the following year to reside in New York . He was there elected to the Senate of the United States in 1794 ; and was sent by Washington ...
... United States after the adoption of the constitution ; but this not having happened , he went in the following year to reside in New York . He was there elected to the Senate of the United States in 1794 ; and was sent by Washington ...
الصفحة 36
... The tree of liberty was to be planted throughout the earth . The progress of French principles was very grateful to the opposition in the United States ; nor to them only . Many of the federal party 36 FAMILIAR LETTERS LETTER XII.
... The tree of liberty was to be planted throughout the earth . The progress of French principles was very grateful to the opposition in the United States ; nor to them only . Many of the federal party 36 FAMILIAR LETTERS LETTER XII.
الصفحة 37
... to Louis ; but because a king had fallen and a triumphant advance had been made in the cause of liberty . It is probable that the leaders of the opposition ; in the United States , not only saw this event 4 ON PUBLIC CHARACTERS . 37.
... to Louis ; but because a king had fallen and a triumphant advance had been made in the cause of liberty . It is probable that the leaders of the opposition ; in the United States , not only saw this event 4 ON PUBLIC CHARACTERS . 37.
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 192 - Let Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for — let the event be gradually broken to her; but give her hopes.
الصفحة 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.