George Washington, Band 2Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... measures as were possible for the development of the West , believing that if Congress could not act , the people would , if any opportunity were given to their natural enterprise . The scheme which he proposed was to open the western 8 ...
... measures as were possible for the development of the West , believing that if Congress could not act , the people would , if any opportunity were given to their natural enterprise . The scheme which he proposed was to open the western 8 ...
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... measures , and saw them one after the other come to naught . He urged the impost scheme , and felt that its failure was fatal to the financial welfare of the country , on which so much depended . He WORKING FOR UNION . 21.
... measures , and saw them one after the other come to naught . He urged the impost scheme , and felt that its failure was fatal to the financial welfare of the country , on which so much depended . He WORKING FOR UNION . 21.
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... measures outside of Congress , of whose action he quite de- spaired . The plan for a commercial agreement between Maryland and Virginia was concerted at Mount Vernon , and led to a call to all the States to meet at Annapolis for the ...
... measures outside of Congress , of whose action he quite de- spaired . The plan for a commercial agreement between Maryland and Virginia was concerted at Mount Vernon , and led to a call to all the States to meet at Annapolis for the ...
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... measures with pas sionate vehemence , Jefferson was writing from Paris in the flippant vein of the fashionable French theorists , and uttering such ineffable nonsense as the famous sentence about " once in twenty years watering the tree ...
... measures with pas sionate vehemence , Jefferson was writing from Paris in the flippant vein of the fashionable French theorists , and uttering such ineffable nonsense as the famous sentence about " once in twenty years watering the tree ...
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... measures . On one of these occasions Washington is reported by Gouverneur Morris , in a eulogy delivered twelve years later , to have said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted . Perhaps another dread- ful ...
... measures . On one of these occasions Washington is reported by Gouverneur Morris , in a eulogy delivered twelve years later , to have said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted . Perhaps another dread- ful ...
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Seite 24 - You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once.
Seite 319 - ... to do away with local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils. Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation), my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure than the establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States, to which the...
Seite 22 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states.
Seite 319 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government...
Seite 240 - I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide.
Seite 16 - With this conviction of the importance of the present Crisis, silence in me would be a crime; I will therefore speak to your Excellency, the language of freedom and of sincerity, without disguise; I am aware, however...
Seite 29 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God.
Seite 34 - Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is that an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peace. The next will be drawn in blood.
Seite 17 - And, although the General has so frequently given it as his opinion in the most public and explicit manner, that, unless the principles of the Federal Government were properly supported, and the powers of the Union increased, the honor, dignity, and justice of the nation, would be lost...
Seite 49 - His Highness the President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties," or simply "The President of the United States"?