Eloquence of the United States, Volumen1E. & H. Clark, 1827 - 517 páginas |
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... continues to be pretty equally divided , and a considerable share of information pervades the community , the tendency of the people's suffrages , will be to elevate merit even from obscurity . As riches increase and accumulate in few ...
... continues to be pretty equally divided , and a considerable share of information pervades the community , the tendency of the people's suffrages , will be to elevate merit even from obscurity . As riches increase and accumulate in few ...
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... continues to be read , and its principles known , the states must , by eve- ry rational man , be considered as essential , component parts of the union ; and therefore the idea of sacrific- ing the former to the latter is wholly ...
... continues to be read , and its principles known , the states must , by eve- ry rational man , be considered as essential , component parts of the union ; and therefore the idea of sacrific- ing the former to the latter is wholly ...
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... continue in office , they will make every prudent arrangement for this purpose , and , whatever may be their private sentiments of po- litics , they will be convinced , that the surest means of obtaining a re - election , will be an ...
... continue in office , they will make every prudent arrangement for this purpose , and , whatever may be their private sentiments of po- litics , they will be convinced , that the surest means of obtaining a re - election , will be an ...
Página 94
... continue forever unchangeably this gov- ernment , although horridly defective . Where are your checks in this government ? Your strong holds will be in the hands of your enemies . It is on a sup- position that your American governors ...
... continue forever unchangeably this gov- ernment , although horridly defective . Where are your checks in this government ? Your strong holds will be in the hands of your enemies . It is on a sup- position that your American governors ...
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... continue in friendship and union with her ? If she sends her annual requisitions in dollars , do you think their stomachs will be so squeam- ish as to refuse her dollars ? Will they not accept her regiments ? They would intimidate you ...
... continue in friendship and union with her ? If she sends her annual requisitions in dollars , do you think their stomachs will be so squeam- ish as to refuse her dollars ? Will they not accept her regiments ? They would intimidate you ...
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Página iv - And also to the Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned...
Página 255 - ... there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
Página 86 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Página 181 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 92 - ... when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.
Página 93 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
Página 254 - You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence. By the article establishing the Executive Department, it is made the duty of the President " to recommend to your " consideration, such measures as he shall judge necessary
Página 252 - On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years : A retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Página 365 - It is agreed that British subjects who now hold lands in the territories of the United States, and American citizens who now hold lands in the dominions of his Majesty, shall continue to hold them according to the nature and tenure of their respective estates and titles therein ; and may grant, sell, or devise the same to whom they please, in like manner as if they were natives ; and that neither they nor their heirs or assigns shall, so far as may respect the said lands and the legal remedies incident...
Página 453 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.