 | Fisher Ames - 1854 - 440 strani
...Bowdoin's whimsical all-surrounding orb — we were confined within some limits. Now, by adding an unmeasured world beyond that river, we rush like a...shall, in every event, quench the light of our own. Two causes might make a government free in principle, tranquil in operation, and stable in its existence... | |
 | 1903 - 986 strani
...district, in his speech opposing the ratifying of the Purchase, said : "By adding an unmeasurable world we rush like a comet into infinite space, in our wild...some other world out of its orbit, but we shall in any event quench the light of our own." True we have jostled other worlds out of their orbits, but... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1888 - 388 strani
...violent. Fisher Ames ( Works, i. 323) wrote: " Now by adding an unmeasured world beyond the Mississippi we rush like a comet into infinite space. In our wild...shall in every event quench the light of our own." Many affected to believe in the worthless ness of the territory, and alleged that the purchase was... | |
 | 1890 - 624 strani
...denounced them in these exaggerated terms : " Now by adding an unmeasured world beyond the Mississippi we rush like a comet into infinite space. In our wild...out of its orbit, but we shall in every event quench our own." By many it was asserted that the territory was worthless and political enemies charged Jefferson... | |
 | 1900 - 654 strani
...a leader of New England political thought, wrote to a friend : " Now by adding an unmeasured world we rush like a comet into infinite space. In our wild...shall in every event quench the light of our own." Such an opinion regarding the purchase of Louisiana was held by a man who was diplomatist, scholar... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 464 strani
...vol. iii., pp. 10-11. Fisher Ames wrote: "Now by adding an Unmeasured world beyond the Mississippi we rush like a comet into infinite space. In our wild...shall in every event quench the light of our own." See his Works, vol. i., p. 323. For similar expressions see Memoirs of Manassch Cutler, vol. ii., p.... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 558 strani
...iii., pp. 10-11. Fisher Ames wrote: "Now by adding an immcasured world beyond the Mississippi we rusli like a comet into infinite space. In our wild career...shall in every event quench the light of our own." See his Works, vol. i., p. 323. For similar expressions see 3Icmoirs of Manassch Cutler, vol. ii.,... | |
 | Everett Somerville Brown - 1920 - 268 strani
...The less territory the better was his declaration. By adding the territory beyond the Mississippi, "we rush like a comet into infinite space. In our...we shall, in every event, quench the light of our own."37 Yet, dropping his party bias, Ames could not bring himself to assent to the argument of the... | |
 | David Mayers - 2007 - 10 strani
...from his farm in Dedham, Massachusetts: "Now, by adding an unmeasured world beyond that [Mississippi] river, we rush like a comet into infinite space. In...shall, in every event, quench the light of our own." In less vivid language, Pickering marveled after Congress had voted treaty passage and funding: "The... | |
 | Thomas Ruys Smith - 2007 - 258 strani
...Massachusetts Federalist, ambivalently predicted: "We were confined within some limits. Now, by adding an unmeasured world beyond that river, we rush like a comet into infinite space." To commemorate the event, John L. Boqueta de Woiseri produced one of the first images of New Orleans... | |
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Now, by adding an unmeasured world beyond that river, we rush like a comet into infinite space. In our wild career we may jostle some other world out of its orbit, but we shall, in every event, quench the light of our... 