A Review of the Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams, Late President of the United States, and the Late Wm: Cunningham, Esq., Beginning in 1803, and Ending in 1812Cushing and Appleton, 1824 - Počet stran: 197 |
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... received applause . Future historians will investigate their characters , and by their actions regulate the award of censure and of praise , for the information and warning of those who shall live after them . But , seeing they have at ...
... received applause . Future historians will investigate their characters , and by their actions regulate the award of censure and of praise , for the information and warning of those who shall live after them . But , seeing they have at ...
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... receiving the notice , the first thought that occurred to me was , that the effigy of one of the greatest and best men the United States ever knew , John Jay , had been exhibited , a public spectacle , in the same manner , and I believe ...
... receiving the notice , the first thought that occurred to me was , that the effigy of one of the greatest and best men the United States ever knew , John Jay , had been exhibited , a public spectacle , in the same manner , and I believe ...
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... received no re- buke . 66 If the " venerable and illustrious sages " of Monticello and Montezillo * are ever to be reconciled , and con- fer and receive mutual forgiveness , there is no time to be lost . The latter , being eighty ...
... received no re- buke . 66 If the " venerable and illustrious sages " of Monticello and Montezillo * are ever to be reconciled , and con- fer and receive mutual forgiveness , there is no time to be lost . The latter , being eighty ...
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... received them . Both were in Mr. Jefferson's own hand writing , to me perfectly well known . Even the hand writing of Davis , on the backs of the letters , noting his receipt of them from Callen- der , was known to me , in consequence ...
... received them . Both were in Mr. Jefferson's own hand writing , to me perfectly well known . Even the hand writing of Davis , on the backs of the letters , noting his receipt of them from Callen- der , was known to me , in consequence ...
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... received their appointments from Mr. Adams , in his better days - when he was himself a fede- ralist . Yet these democratic judges , according to Mr. Jefferson , were , by their judicial decisions , on solemn argument , violating the ...
... received their appointments from Mr. Adams , in his better days - when he was himself a fede- ralist . Yet these democratic judges , according to Mr. Jefferson , were , by their judicial decisions , on solemn argument , violating the ...
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Strana 189 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Strana 195 - Britain; and finally, we do assert, and declare these colonies to be free and independent states, and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Strana 193 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Strana 192 - He has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare is an undistinguished Destruction of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions of existence.
Strana 89 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
Strana 192 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Strana 194 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Strana 187 - What can be your reasons?" "Reason first - You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second - I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third - You can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "If you are decided, I will do as well as I can.
Strana 193 - A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [ ] people [who mean to *