The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...H. Young, 1833 - 389 páginas |
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... moral and in- tellectual power of the man . To this sentiment and this trait of his mind , are we indebted for the final triumph of the cause of Independence ; for the crisis was awful and deci- sive . Had Washington quailed , or ...
... moral and in- tellectual power of the man . To this sentiment and this trait of his mind , are we indebted for the final triumph of the cause of Independence ; for the crisis was awful and deci- sive . Had Washington quailed , or ...
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... moral weight of popular power attached to his name , it was natural that all who partook of the same military ar- dour , the same love of energetic authority , and the same desire to behold the American army a colossal engine of ...
... moral weight of popular power attached to his name , it was natural that all who partook of the same military ar- dour , the same love of energetic authority , and the same desire to behold the American army a colossal engine of ...
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... moral consequences , however , the battle of Ger- mantown was of essential service to the American cause . It checked the growing defection of the people , arrested the despondency of the public mind , and cheered the drooping spirits ...
... moral consequences , however , the battle of Ger- mantown was of essential service to the American cause . It checked the growing defection of the people , arrested the despondency of the public mind , and cheered the drooping spirits ...
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... moral grandeur to be found in the history of military chiefs . That he now panted with uncommon ardour to signalise himself in a decisive action , was proved by the unceasing efforts he made , after the defeat of Burgoyne , to procure a ...
... moral grandeur to be found in the history of military chiefs . That he now panted with uncommon ardour to signalise himself in a decisive action , was proved by the unceasing efforts he made , after the defeat of Burgoyne , to procure a ...
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... moral sublimity of his virtues rescued him from all suspicion of any attempt to subjugate their rights , or shackle their freedom . Commissioners from Great Britain , to negociate a plan of conciliation with the States , again arrived ...
... moral sublimity of his virtues rescued him from all suspicion of any attempt to subjugate their rights , or shackle their freedom . Commissioners from Great Britain , to negociate a plan of conciliation with the States , again arrived ...
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Página 167 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Página 160 - ... employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, though often covertly and insidiously, directed, — it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 164 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 161 - North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes in different ways to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength to which itself is unequally adapted.
Página 166 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character in governments purely elective it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose, and there being constant danger of excess the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
Página 168 - ... distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
Página 295 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Página 167 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 165 - The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and, sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
Página 169 - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.