Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams ...E. M. Cunningham, 1823 - Počet stran: 219 |
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... nature , free and equal ; but , there is , among them , a perpetual tendency to inequality . Society is con- stantly diverging into the extremes of affluence and power , on the one hand , and penury and weakness , on the other . B · The ...
... nature , free and equal ; but , there is , among them , a perpetual tendency to inequality . Society is con- stantly diverging into the extremes of affluence and power , on the one hand , and penury and weakness , on the other . B · The ...
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... nor for the actors who now tread the stage . You say , the awful spirit of demo- cracy is in great progress . I believe it , and I know something of the nature of it . It is a + young rake who thinks himself handsome and well made , 18.
... nor for the actors who now tread the stage . You say , the awful spirit of demo- cracy is in great progress . I believe it , and I know something of the nature of it . It is a + young rake who thinks himself handsome and well made , 18.
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... to break up at once , and forever , the usages which had grown habitual , and of which their natural situation was the origin and nurse , would be an extremity that no circumstances could excuse . That , such a measure 22.
... to break up at once , and forever , the usages which had grown habitual , and of which their natural situation was the origin and nurse , would be an extremity that no circumstances could excuse . That , such a measure 22.
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... submissive fear and mingled rage . " 1 Dear Sir , LETTER XI . FITCHBURG , Oct. 5th , 1808 . The papers , to which you have obligingly asked a more particular reference , were published in the Palladium , with the sig- nature 30.
... submissive fear and mingled rage . " 1 Dear Sir , LETTER XI . FITCHBURG , Oct. 5th , 1808 . The papers , to which you have obligingly asked a more particular reference , were published in the Palladium , with the sig- nature 30.
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John Adams. were published in the Palladium , with the sig- nature of Chatham . I deemed their composi- tion in a higher strain than my principles sug- gested , to be necessary to arrest the public at- tention . In moments of peculiar ...
John Adams. were published in the Palladium , with the sig- nature of Chatham . I deemed their composi- tion in a higher strain than my principles sug- gested , to be necessary to arrest the public at- tention . In moments of peculiar ...
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Strana 173 - ... determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Strana 169 - 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 172 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Strana 172 - 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 175 - 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 173 - 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 174 - 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 174 - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
Strana 71 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
Strana 167 - 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.