The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...H. Young, 1833 - 389페이지 |
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... secure a victory . It must be admitted that he attempted too much for his limited means to accomplish , or his peculiar genius to control and direct . The effect upon the army was dismaying : whole regiments marched home ; and it was a ...
... secure a victory . It must be admitted that he attempted too much for his limited means to accomplish , or his peculiar genius to control and direct . The effect upon the army was dismaying : whole regiments marched home ; and it was a ...
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... secure victory by force , or effect it by stratagem . On the part of Washington , the patriot drops the tear of mortification over the lamentable deficiencies , wants , and inconveniences , that obstructed his motions , baffled his ...
... secure victory by force , or effect it by stratagem . On the part of Washington , the patriot drops the tear of mortification over the lamentable deficiencies , wants , and inconveniences , that obstructed his motions , baffled his ...
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... secure the efficiency of prompt and energetic authority . Accustomed as he was to the rapid movements and absolute commands of an army , this habit would naturally generate in his mind a desire to introduce the same prompt principle of ...
... secure the efficiency of prompt and energetic authority . Accustomed as he was to the rapid movements and absolute commands of an army , this habit would naturally generate in his mind a desire to introduce the same prompt principle of ...
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... secure his troops from insult , surprise or defeat . The subjugation of Georgia by the British , and the unsuc- cessful attempt of the combined forces of the French and Americans to recover Savannah , and the departure of the French ...
... secure his troops from insult , surprise or defeat . The subjugation of Georgia by the British , and the unsuc- cessful attempt of the combined forces of the French and Americans to recover Savannah , and the departure of the French ...
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... secure shield from the shafts of calumny . " On the other hand , the unbounded confidence the people have in your tried patriotism and wisdom , would exceed- I 2 GEORGE WASHINGTON . 101 civil discord, I have already told you, it ...
... secure shield from the shafts of calumny . " On the other hand , the unbounded confidence the people have in your tried patriotism and wisdom , would exceed- I 2 GEORGE WASHINGTON . 101 civil discord, I have already told you, it ...
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167 페이지 - 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...
160 페이지 - ... 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...
164 페이지 - 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.
161 페이지 - 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.
166 페이지 - ... 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.
168 페이지 - ... 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?
295 페이지 - 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.
167 페이지 - 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.
165 페이지 - 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.
169 페이지 - ... 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.