The Life of George Washington, Količina 4Merrill & Baker, 1920 |
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Stran 198
... measure , and as most of these measures had been carried by small majorities , they had been carried by these very votes . It was a cause of just uneasiness , therefore , when we saw a legislature legislat- ing for their own interests ...
... measure , and as most of these measures had been carried by small majorities , they had been carried by these very votes . It was a cause of just uneasiness , therefore , when we saw a legislature legislat- ing for their own interests ...
Stran 201
... measures ? If he disapproves of the government itself , and thinks it deserving of his opposition , can he reconcile it to his own personal dignity and the principles of probity , to hold an office under it , and employ the means of ...
... measures ? If he disapproves of the government itself , and thinks it deserving of his opposition , can he reconcile it to his own personal dignity and the principles of probity , to hold an office under it , and employ the means of ...
Stran 203
... measures which in its consequences , would subvert the government ; when I saw , that the undoing of the funding system in particular ( which , whatever may be the original measures of that system , would prostrate the credit and honor ...
... measures which in its consequences , would subvert the government ; when I saw , that the undoing of the funding system in particular ( which , whatever may be the original measures of that system , would prostrate the credit and honor ...
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