Eloquence of the United States, Količina 1E. & H. Clark, 1827 - 517 strani |
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... assembling voluntarily , deliberating fully , and deciding calmly , concerning that system of government , under which they would wish that they and their posterity should live . The ancients , so 6 MR . WILSON'S SPEECH ON.
... assembling voluntarily , deliberating fully , and deciding calmly , concerning that system of government , under which they would wish that they and their posterity should live . The ancients , so 6 MR . WILSON'S SPEECH ON.
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... wish , to behold the glorious union ? I can well recollect , though I believe I cannot convey to others , the impression , which , on many occasions , was made by the difficulties which surrounded and pressed the convention . The great ...
... wish , to behold the glorious union ? I can well recollect , though I believe I cannot convey to others , the impression , which , on many occasions , was made by the difficulties which surrounded and pressed the convention . The great ...
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... wishes entertained since the era of our independence . If those opinions and wishes are as well founded as they have been general , the late convention were justified in proposing to their constituents one confederate re- public , as ...
... wishes entertained since the era of our independence . If those opinions and wishes are as well founded as they have been general , the late convention were justified in proposing to their constituents one confederate re- public , as ...
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... wish for the safety of his country , trust the sword and the purse with a single assembly organized on principles so defective - so rotten ? Though we might give to such a government certain powers , with safety , yet to give them the ...
... wish for the safety of his country , trust the sword and the purse with a single assembly organized on principles so defective - so rotten ? Though we might give to such a government certain powers , with safety , yet to give them the ...
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... wishes . Sir , the general sense of the people will regulate the conduct of their re- presentatives . I admit that there are exceptions to this rule - there are certain conjunctures , when it may be necessary and proper to disregard the ...
... wishes . Sir , the general sense of the people will regulate the conduct of their re- presentatives . I admit that there are exceptions to this rule - there are certain conjunctures , when it may be necessary and proper to disregard the ...
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Stran 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...
Stran 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...
Stran 86 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 453 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.