 We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.  Life of George Washington - Seite 447von Washington Irving - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1876 - 536 Seiten
...Life of JQ Adams, II., p. 129. * Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay: " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures thn best caleulated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power." Washington's... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 Seiten
...accord with ray own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 Seiten
...accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 Seiten
...obedience to the ordinances of a general government. without which every thing else fails." And again : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can long exist as a nation, without having lodged somewhere... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1877 - 538 Seiten
...Life of JQ Adams, II., p. 129. 1 Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay; " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion...confederation. Experience has taught us that men will uot adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1878 - 56 Seiten
...order to prevent this." Washington wrote to John Jay (SPABKS'S Life of Washington, vol. ix., p. 187): "We have probably had too good an opinion of human...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power." " The glare of royalty... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1882 - 544 Seiten
...opinion of human nature when they formed their confederation ! If experience, as he said, has taught that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures...good, without the intervention of coercive power, how can it be maintained that they are capable of self-government? Whence is to come that coercive... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 580 Seiten
...republic than did General Washington. In a letter to Mr. Jay in the previous autumn he had said : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...into execution measures the best calculated for their owu good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can long exist as a nation... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1889 - 538 Seiten
...of JQ A. tarns, II., p. 129. * Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay: " We have ertors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human anture in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that •1>en will not adopt and carry... | |
 | John Jay - 1793 - 528 Seiten
...have, probably, had too gootf an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. /fexperience_has taught us, that men will not adopt, and carry into...the best calculated for their own good, without the in\ tervention of a coercive power./ 1 do not conceive we can ^j \ exist long~as~aTnation, withtruHiaving... | |
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