Washington's Political Legacies: To which is Annexed an Appendix, Containing an Account of His Illness, Death, and the National Tributes of Respect Paid to His Memory, with a Biographical Outline of His Life and CharacterJohn Russell and John West, 1800 - 208 Seiten |
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... happiness , and glory : the author of the biographical outline of General WASH- INGTON , which forms a part of this work , is evident- ly indebted , for his dates , to the valuable publications of the rev . Dr. MORSE , MISS HANNAH ADAMS ...
... happiness , and glory : the author of the biographical outline of General WASH- INGTON , which forms a part of this work , is evident- ly indebted , for his dates , to the valuable publications of the rev . Dr. MORSE , MISS HANNAH ADAMS ...
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... happiness , I do not wish to make any profit from it . I will keep an exact account of my expences . Those I doubt not they will discharge , and that is all I desire . " ON THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES , GENE- RAL WASHINGTON ISSUED ΙΟ ...
... happiness , I do not wish to make any profit from it . I will keep an exact account of my expences . Those I doubt not they will discharge , and that is all I desire . " ON THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES , GENE- RAL WASHINGTON ISSUED ΙΟ ...
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... happiness , being ex- tremely dear to me , will always constitute no inconsiderable part of my own . IMPRESSED with the liveliest sensibility on this pleasing occasion , I will claim the indul- gence of dilating the more copiously on ...
... happiness , being ex- tremely dear to me , will always constitute no inconsiderable part of my own . IMPRESSED with the liveliest sensibility on this pleasing occasion , I will claim the indul- gence of dilating the more copiously on ...
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... happiness than any other nation has ever been favoured with . Noth- ing can illustrate these observations more forcibly than the recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances , un- der which our republic assumed its ...
... happiness than any other nation has ever been favoured with . Noth- ing can illustrate these observations more forcibly than the recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances , un- der which our republic assumed its ...
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... happiness is ours , if we have a dis- position to seize the occasion , and make it our own ; yet it appears to me , there is an option still left to the United States of Amer- ica , whether they will be respectable and pros- perous , or ...
... happiness is ours , if we have a dis- position to seize the occasion , and make it our own ; yet it appears to me , there is an option still left to the United States of Amer- ica , whether they will be respectable and pros- perous , or ...
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Seite 83 - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Seite 53 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Seite 95 - ... the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Seite 68 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Seite 80 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Seite 84 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.
Seite 88 - 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.
Seite 86 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Seite 78 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management...
Seite 70 - ... the happiness of the people of these states, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation, which is yet a stranger to it.