Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence, Band 2

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Harper & brothers, 1837
 

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Seite 2 - Turner's Sacred History of the World, attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son.
Seite 137 - ... that I would utterly disclaim all competition. Be assured that the Federal party can entertain no wish for such an exchange. As to my friends, they would dishonor my views and insult my feelings, by a suspicion that I would submit to be instrumental in counteracting the wishes and the expectations of the people of the United States. And I now constitute you my proxy to declare these sentiments, if the occasion shall require.
Seite 320 - I did not go further in the attempt to accommodate, than a punctilious delicacy will justify. If so, I hope the motives I have stated will excuse me. It is not my design, by what I have said, to affix any odium on the conduct of Col.
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Seite 323 - I am indebted to you, my dearest Theodosia, for a very great portion of the happiness which I have enjoyed in this life. You have completely satisfied all that my heart and affections had hoped or even wished. With a little more perseverance, determination, and industry, you will obtain all that my ambition or vanity had fondly imagined. Let your son have occasion to be proud that he had a mother. Adieu. Adieu.
Seite 372 - For a week I have been lounging at the house of General Jackson, once a lawyer, after a judge, now a planter ; a man of intelligence, and one of those prompt, frank, ardent souls whom I love to meet.
Seite 63 - You, sir, know in a great degree the anti-federal party ; but I fear you do not know them as well as I do. It is a composition, indeed, of very incongruous materials, but all tending to mischief — some of them to the overthrow of the government, by stripping it of its due energies ; others of them, to a revolution after the manner of Bonaparte. I speak from indubitable facts, not from conjectures and inferences.
Seite 77 - ... more efficacious post. There I should rejoice to see you; I hope I may say, I shall rejoice to see you. I have long had much in my mind to say to you on that subject. But double delicacies have kept me silent. I ought perhaps to say, while I would not give up my own retirement for the empire of the universe...
Seite 307 - SIR, The letter which I had the honor to receive from you, under date of yesterday, states, among other things, that, in General Hamilton's opinion, Colonel Burr has taken a very indefinite ground, in which he evinces nothing short of predetermined hostility, and General Hamilton thinks it inadmissible that the inquiry should extend to his confidential as well as other conversations.

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